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ZION’S  CONFLICT 


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METHODIST  APOSTASY 

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ESPECIALLY  IN 


Connection  With  Freemasonry. 


A  SERIES  OF  DISCOURSES  EXPOSING  THE  FACT  THAT  THE  METHODIST 
CHURCH  HAS  BEEN  SOLD  OUT  BY  ITS  LEADERS  TO  THE 
WORLD,  THE  FLESH  AND  THE  DEVIL. 


BY  THE 


REV.  JOHN  ALEXANDER  DOWIE, 

General  Overseer  of  the 
Christian  Catholic  Church  in  Zion. 


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Delivered  in  Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Chicago,  During  the  Sittings  of  the 
General  Conference  of  the  Methodist  Church  in  Chicago, 
from  May  6  to  May  24,  1900. 

AN  APPENDIX: 

Zion’s  Inquisition  for  .Blood, 

I 

J  Giving  Facts  Concerning  the  Murder  of 

Capt.  William  Morgan. 


CHICAGO: 

ZION  PUBLISHING  HOUSE, 

1207  MICHIGAN  AVENUE. 
1900. 


2tr 

J)  76 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


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First  Discourse. 

Prelude — “  By  What  Authority  Doest  Thou  These  Things?  ” 
Sermon  The  Methodists  ‘  Seal  of  the  Covenant  ’  Ex¬ 
amined,”  . 

Second  Discourse. 

“The  Methodist  Church  the  Property  of  the  Masonic  Order,” 
Third  Discourse. 

“Freemasonry:  A  Heathen  and  an  Antichristian  Abomina¬ 
tion,”  . 

Fourth  Discourse. 

Elijah  the  Prophet  of  God  and  the  Priests  of  Baal  at  Carmel; 
With  its  Application  to  Chicago,” . 


Fifth  Discourse. 

“  Degrees  of  Masonic  Devilry/ 


Sixth  Discourse. 

“Betrayers  Who  Kiss  the  Christ,  and  Sell  Him  to  His 
Enemies,” . 

Seventh  Discourse. 

“The  Rise,  Progress  and  Fall  of  Methodism  in  America,”  . 
Eighth  Discourse. 

“The  Silence  of  Secrecy  and  the  Open  Speech  of  Chris¬ 
tianity,”  . 

_  Ninth  Discourse. 

“The  Christian’s  Duty  in  Breaking  a  Bad  Oath  ” 

I  . . 

Illustrations. 

Portrait  of  Rev.  John  Alex.  Dowie . Frontispiece 

“  Zion  Confronting  the  Methodist  Apostasy,” . 

“  Zion  Making  Inquisition  for  Blood  ”— The  Masonic  Murder 
of  Ellen  Slade,  .... 

“  Baal  Mockeries  in  God’s  Temple,” . 

v  “The  Unruly  Assembly  of  the  Prophets  of  Baal  Selecting  a 
Bishop,” . 

“Zion  Triumphant  Over  the  Hosts  of  Baal,”  , 

.  Portrait  of  Capt.  William  Morgan,  ....... 

Methodism  Clinging  to  Mah-Hah-Bone  in  the  Darkness  of 

Masonry’” . Facing 

/  |  “  The  False  Covenant  Set  Forth,” . Facing 

“The  Masonic  Covenant  Revealed,” . Facing 

“Zion  Making  Inquisition  for  Blood,” . Facing 


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PRELUDE:  “BY  WHAT  AUTHORITY  DOEST  THOU  THESE 
THINGS?”  SERMON:  “THE  METHODISTS’  ‘SEAL 
OF  THE  COVENANT’  EXAMINED.” 


EVER  since  the  Quadrennial  General  Conference  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  sold  itself  to  Chicago  for 
$50,000  nearly  two  years  ago,  the  General  Overseer  has  been 
promising  that  body  of  men  a  “warm  reception”  when  they 
came  to  Chicago. 

Since  that  time,  his  warnings  to  them  on  account  of  their 
apostasies,  especially  in  the  matter  of  their  fellowship  with 
the  “unfruitful  works  of  darkness”  in  Baal-worshiping  Masonic 
Lodges,  have  become  more  and  more  distinct. 

For  the  last  few  weeks  that  warning  Voice  had  been  ringing 
out  with  its  terrible  indictment,  until  the  atmosphere  was  elec¬ 
trical  with  the  forebodings  of  the  coming  struggle  —  Zion 
against  the  Apostasy,  God  against  Baal. 

On  Wednesday,  May  2,  1900,  the  Methodist  General  Con¬ 
ference  began  its  sessions  at  the  Auditorium,  and  on  Lord’s 
Day  afternoon,  May  6th,  the  General  Overseer  began  his 
Series  of  Nine  Discourses  on  Zion’s  Conflict  with  Methodist 
Apostasy. 

With  their  accustomed  zeal  and  love  for  the  work,  Zion’s 
Seventies  had  distributed,  in  Chicago  and  suburbs,  300,000 
cards  announcing  this  and  other  meetings  of  the  week 
and  series.  The  result  was  seen  in  the  magnificent  audience 
which  gathered  in  the  splendid  auditorium  of  Central  Zion 
Tabernacle. 

Every  available  seat  was  filled  when  the  services  began  with 
the  beautiful  processional  by  Zion’s  White-robed  Choir,  and 
within  a  very  few  minutes  hundreds  wrere  standing  in  the 
aisles,  in  the  vestibules  and  in  the  vacant  space  behind  the 
seats  in  the  highest  gallery.  Many  who  came  were  turned 
away  because  there  was  no  room  for  them.  It  is  impos- 


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sible  to  estimate  the  number  to  which  the  General  Overseer 
would  have  spoken  on  that  Lord’s  Day  afternoon,  had  he 

been  able  to  secure  a  room  large  enough  to  accommodate 
them. 

Alt  hough  the  m  an  of  God  was  visibly  worn  by  the  heavy 
draughts  upon  his  strength  made  by  the  flying  visit  to  Phila¬ 
delphia  and  Washington,  and  the  all-night  labors  upon  Leaves 
of  Healing  and  other  important  matters  since  his  return,  God 
was  with  him  in  great  power,  and  the  telling  effect  of  his  Mes¬ 
sage  of  Truth  was  plainly  visible  in  the  faces  of  those  who 
heard. 

\\  hen  the  ser\  ice  begun  many  countenances  wore  a  sneer, 
and  sullen  defiance  was  pictured  upon  many  others.  These 
sinister  looks  changed  as  the  speaker  proceeded  with  his 
argument.  They  first  gave  way  to  a  look  of  absorbing 
interest,  then,  in  many  cases,  to  conviction  and  sympathy. 
In  others,  the  mighty  words  created  the  deepest  and  most 
solemn  thought. 

There  were  a  great  many  members  of  the  Conference  in 
the  audience,  and  some  of  these  were  in  open  sympathy  with 
the  General  Overseer. 

One  of  them,  a  distinguished  member  of  the  Methodist 
body,  sought  an  interview  with  the  General  Overseer  after 
the  ser\  ice,  and,  it  being  granted,  grasped  him  by  the  hand 
and  said,  “Thou  art  a  man  of  God!  I  thank  God  for  every 
word  you  said  this  afternoon.” 

The  sermon  over,  a  short  intermission  was  given,  during 
which  those  who  did  not  wish  to  partake  of  the  Lord’s  Supper 
withdrew.  Those  who  remained  numbered  fully  2000.  A  most 
blessed  time  was  spent  in  the  services  of  the  reception  of  new 
members,  the  ordination  of  new  officers,  and  the  communion  of 
the  Lord’s  Supper. 

The  presence  and  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit  was  mani¬ 
festly  m  the  midst  of  that  prayerful  company  of  Christians  as 
they  waited  before  the  Lord. 

As  evidencing  the  “staying”  qualities  of  the  General  Over¬ 
seer,  and  of  the  thousands  of  Zion,  we  mention  the  fact  that 
the  exercises  were  continuous,  save  for  a  few  minutes,  from 

3  to  9  p.  m. — six  hours.  It  was  a  time  of  great  joy  and  of 
power. 


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Thus,  with  the  sweet  consciousness  of  the  blessing  of  God, 
was  ZioTs  great  and  most  important  Conflict  with  the  Hosts 
of  Hell  in  the  nominal  Church  of  God  begun.  a.  w.  n. 


The 

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FIRST  DISCOURSE. 

Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord’s  Day  Afternoon,  May  6,  1900. 

services  were  opened  by  singing  Hymn  Number 

Stand  up!-— stand  up  for  Jesus! 

Ye  soldiers  of  the  cross; 

Lift  high  His  royal  banner, 

It  must  not  suffer  loss: 

From  vict’ry  unto  vict’ry 
His  army  shall  He  lead, 

Till  ev’ry  foe  is  vanquished, 

And  Christ  is  Lord  indeed. 

SCRIPTURE  READING  AND  EXPOSITION. 

The  General  Overseer  then  read  from  the  Inspired  Word  of 
God  in  the  book  of  the  Prophet  Isaiah,  a  part  of  the  twenty- 
fouith  chapter,  also  in  the  book  of  Malachi,  the  third  chapter: 

Behold,  Jehovah  maketh  the  earth  empty,  and  maketh  it  waste,  and 
turneth  it  upside  down,  and  scattereth  abroad  the  inhabitants  -thereof.  And 
U  shall  be,  as  with  the  people,  so  with  the  priest;  as  with  the  servant,  so 
with  his  master;  as  with  the  maid,  so  with  her  mistress;  as  with  the  buyer 
so  with  the  seller;  as  with  the  lender,  so  with  the  borrower;  as  with  the* 
taker  of  usury,  so  with  the  giver  of  usury  to  him.  The  earth  shall  be  utterly 
emptied,  and  utterly  spoiled;  for  Jehovah  hath  spoken  this  word  The 
earth  mourneth  and  fadeth  away,  the  world  languisheth  and  fadeth  away 
the  lofty  people  of  the  earth  do  languish.  The  earth  also  is  polluted  under 
the  inhabitants  thereof;  because  they  have  transgressed  the  laws,  changed 
the  ordinance,  broken  the  everlasting  covenant. 

Behold,  I  send  My  Messenger,  and  he  shall  prepare  the  way  before  Me  • 
and  Jehovah  whom  you  seek,  shall  suddenly  come  to  His  Temple;  and  the 
Messenger  of  the  Covenant,  whom  ye  delight  in,  behold,  he  cometh,  saith 
Jehovah  of  hosts.  But  who  may  abide  the  day  of  his  coming?  and  who 
shall  stand  when  he  appeareth?  for  he  is  like  a  refiner’s  fire,  and  like  fullers' 
soap:  and  he  shall  sit  as  a  refiner  and  purifier  of  silver,  and  he  shall  purify 
the  sons  of  Levi,  and  purge  them  as  gold  and  silver;  and  they  shall  offer 
unto  Jehovah  offerings  in  righteousness. 

And  I  will  come  near  to  you  to  judgment;  and  I  will  be  a  Swift  Witness 
against  the  sorcerers — 

Kashaph  (j pharmakoi ),  pharmacists,  the  makers  and  venders 
of  these  damning  poisons  that  are  cursing  and  destroying 
humanity:  nicotine,  alcohol,  cocaine,  opium,  laudanum,  mor¬ 
phine,  and  many  other  narcotic  brain  poisons. 

Never  was  there  a  time  when  the  witness  should  be  more 
earnest  and  persistent,  for  the  whole  earth  is  defiled  by  the 
manufacture  of  poisons  which  destroy  every  power  in  soul  and 

body  until  the  spirit  is  enchained  and  dragged  down  to 

hell. 

— and  agaiust  the  adukcrers  and  against  false  swearers;  and  against  those 
that  oppress  the  hireling  in  his  wages,  the  widow,  and  the  fatherless,  and 


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that  turn  aside  the  stranger  from  his  right,  and  fear  not  Me,  saith  Jehovah 
of  hosts.  For  I  Jehovah  change  not;  therefore  ye,  0  sons  of  Jacob,  are  not 
consumed. 

From  the  days  of  your  fathers  ye  have  turned  aside  from  Mine  ordi¬ 
nances,  and  have  not  kept  them.  Return  unto  Me,  and  I  will  return  unto 
you,  saith  Jehovah  of  hosts.  But  ye  say,  Wherein  shall  we  return?  Will  a 
man  rob  God?  yet  ye  rob  Me.  But  ye  say,  Wherein  have  we  robbed  Thee? 
In  tithes  and  offerings.  Ye  are  cursed  with  the  curse;  for  ye  rob  Me,  even 
this  whole  nation.  Bring  ye  the  whole  tithe  into  the  Storehouse,  that  there 
may  be  meat  in  Mine  house,  and  prove  Me  now  herewith,  saith  Jehovah  of 
hosts,  if  I  will  not  open  you  the  windows  of  Heaven,  and  pour  you  out  a 
blessing,  that  there  shall  not  be  room  enough  to  receive  it.  And  I  will 
rebuke  the  devourer  for  your  sakes,  and  he  shall  not  destroy  the  fruits  of 
your  ground;  neither  shall  your  vine  cast  her  fruit  before  the  time  in  the 
field,  saith  Jehovah  of  hosts.  And  all  nations  shall  call  you  happy:  for  ye 
shall  be  a  delightsome  land,  saith  Jehovah  of  hosts. 

The  General  Overseer  leading,  the  entire  audience  joined  in 
singing  the  twelfth  verse  with  great  enthusiasm  several  times. 
The  effect  was  marvelous. 

Your  words  have  been  stout  against  Me,  saith  Jehovah.  Yet  ye  say, 
Wherein  have  we  spoken  against  Thee?  Ye  have  said,  It  is  vain  to  serve 
God:  and  what  profit  is  it  that  we  have  kept  His  charge,  and  that  we  have 
walked  mournfully  before  Jehovah  of  hosts?  And  now  we  call  the  proud 
happy;  yea,  they  that  work  wickedness  are  built  up;  yea,  they  tempt  God, 
and  are  delivered.  Then  they  that  feared  Jehovah  spake  one  with  another: 
and  Jehovah  hearkened,  and'  heard,  and  a  Book  of  Remembrance  was 
written  before  Him,  for  them  that  feared  the  Lord,  and  that  thought  upon 
His  Name.  And  they  shall  be  Mine,  saith  Jehovah  of  hosts,  in  the  day  that 
I  do  make,  even  a  peculiar  treasure;  and  I  will  spare  them,  as  a  man 
spareth  his  own  son  that  serveth  him.  Then  shall  ye  return  and  discern 
between  the  righteous  and  the  wicked,  between  him  that  serveth  God  and 
him  that  serveth  Him  not.  For,  behold,  the  day  cometh,  it  burneth  as  a 
furnace;  and  all  the  proud,  and  all  that  work  wickedness,  shall  be  stubble: 
and  the  day  that  cometh  shall  burn  them  up,  saith  Jehovah  of  hosts,  that  it 
shall  leave  them  neither  root  nor  branch.  But  unto  you  that  fear  My  Name 
shall  the  Sun  of  Righteousness  arise  with  healing  in  His  wings ;  and  ye  shall 
go  forth,  and  gambol  as  calves  of  the  stall.  And  ye  shall  tread  down  the 
wicked;  for  they  shall  be  ashes  under  the  soles  of  your  feet  in  the  day  that 
I  do  make,  saith  Jehovah  of  hosts. 

Remember  ye  the  law  of  Moses  My  servant,  which  I  commanded  unto 
him  in  Horeb  for  all  Israel,  even  statutes  and  judgments.  Behold,  I  will 
send  you  Elijah  the  prophet  before  the  great  and  terrible  day  of  Jehovah 
come.  And  he  shall  turn  the  heart  of  the  fathers  to  the  children,  and  the 
heart  of  the  children  to  their  fathers;  lest  I  come  and  smite  the  earth  with  a 
curse. 

Closing  with  this  prayer: 

May  God  bless  His  Word. 

Zion’s  White-robed  Choir  then  sang,  with  a  sincerity  which 
showed  their  feeling  of  the  lofty  sentiment,  the  tribute  of  praise 
in  the  words  of  the  Te  Deum. 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by  the  General  Overseer  as  fol¬ 
lows  : 

PRAYER  BY  THE  GENERAL  OVERSEER. 

Our  Father  who  art  in  the  heavens,  we  hallow  Thy  Name.  Help  us  to 
say  with  all  our  hearts:  Thy  Kingdom  come,  Thy  will  be  done  in  earth  just 
in  the  same  way  as  it  is  done  in  the  heavens. 


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To  that  end,  inspire  in  our  spirits  the  words  of  this  sacred  song  which 
has  come  rolling  down  through  the  ages  sung  by  martyred  hosts;  sung 
amidst  the  fires;  sung  amidst  the  howlings  of  savage  beasts  which  tore  fear¬ 
less  children  of  Goaf  in  the  ancient  days;  sung  still  by  hearts,  we  trust, 
with  that  deep  humility  and  pure  faith,  still  following  in  Zion  in  the  steps  of 
the  Son  of  God. 

We  thank  Thee  this  afternoon  for  all  the  blessing  which  has  come  to 
us  through  the  Gospel,  the  Everlasting  Gospel  of  God;  that  Gospel  which 
tells  us  not  merely  of  One  slain  on  Calvary  for  sinners,  but  of  One  who  is 
the  Lamb  of  God  slain  from  the  foundation  of  the  world,  whose  atoning 
sacrifice  antedates  human  transgression. 

We  thank  Thee  for  a  Salvation  which  preceded  sin;  for  a  provision 
and  for  a  redemption  which  preceded  man’s  bitter  disobedience  and 
fall. 

We  thank  Thee  that  in  all  the  ages,  in  all  the  afflictions  of  Thy  people, 
Thou  hast  been  afflicted,  and  that  in  Thy  love  and  in  Thy  pity  redemption 
has  ever  been  provided;  that  the  angel  of  Thy  presence  saved  them,  and 
that  in  Thy  love  and  in  Thy  compassion  and  pity  Thou  hast  borne  them 
and  carried  them  all  the  days  of  old. 

So  Zion  sings  today  the  glad  song  that  in  all  the  ages  amidst  darkness 
and  doubt  and  peril  and  pain  and  hypocrisy  and  apostasies  of  every  kind 
has  been  sung  by  the  royal  few. 

Oh  God,  our  Father,  grant  Thy  protection  at  this  time,  when  perils  are 
greater  than  ever  before,  perils  among  false  brethren,  and  perils  amidst  an 
apostate  and  spurious  Christianity;  perils  amidst  those  who  betray  their 
Master  with  a  kiss,  sell  Him  for  silver,  and  consort  in  the  darkness  with 
those  who  never  name  His  Name  or  own  His  power,  and  yet  pretend  in 
the  light  that  they  also  are  Christians. 

Have  mercy  upon  all  who  have  apostasized  through  Secretism  (Amen); 
through  the  dark  corruptions  of  Satanic  Masonry;  through  the  horrible  pol¬ 
lutions  of  a  false  Christ  and  a  false  resurrection  of  a  mythical  being,  and  in 
Thine  infinite  mercy  deliver  the  people.  (Amen.)  Deliver  the  people  of 
God.  Deliver  the  people  at  large  from  the  powers  of  those  who  are  the 
world-rulers  of  this  darkness,  and  in  Thine  infinite  love  and  mercy  destroy 
these  high  places  of  evil  (Amen),  and  let  the  people  go  free.  (Amen.) 

For  Jesus’  sake,  help  us  in  this  series  of  discourses  which  will  occupy 
the  next  three  weeks,  if  we  are  permitted  to  speak  for  Thee. 

Give  unto  us  Wisdom,  Knowledge,  Faith:  the  Faith  which  perceives 
and  receives;  the  Faith  which  uses  the  Divine  powers  which  are  within 
Thy  grasp;  the  Faith  which  works  for  Thee;  the  Faith  which  rests  in  Thee. 

Give  unto  us  the  Love:  that  Love  which  is  an  all-consuming  Fire;  the 
Love  which  makes  us  love  our  fellowmen  too  much  to  fear  them;  the  Love 
which  bids  us  warn  of  danger;  the  Love  which  impels  us  to  bring  them  into 
Salvation,  Healing  and  Holy  Living. 

Give  unto  us  not  only  these  Graces,  but  the  needed  Gifts  that  by  means 
of  the  Word  of  Wisdom,  and  the  Word  of  Knowledge  and  Faith  the  Church 
of  God  may  enter  into  the  possession  of  the  Gifts  of  Healings;  Workings  of 
Powers,  Prophesies,  Discernings  of  Spirits,  Tongues  and  Interpretation  of 
Tongues.  Grant  that  Thy  people  to  whom  these  gifts  were  given,  and  from 
whom  they  have  never  been  taken  away,  may  remember  and  realize  that 
the  gifts  and  calling  of  God  are  without  repentance. 

To  this  end,  bless  Thy  people.  Look  in  great  compassion  at  this  time, 
therefore,  upon  those  who  have  transgressed  the  Laws;  who  have  changed 
the  Ordinance;  who  have  broken  the  Everlasting  Covenant  of  Salvation, 
Healing  and  Holy  Living.  Have  mercy  upon  those  who  have  repudiated 
and  cursed  those  who  preach  that  Tri-une  Gospel,  and  practice  the 
Triune  Baptism  which,  by  Thy  Son,  Thou  didst  command. 

Have  mercy,  therefore,  upon  the  apostate  Methodist  Conference 
(Amen),  which  has  denied  the  Lord  who  bought  His  people  as  their  Healer 
and  Cleanser;  which  has  transgressed  the  Law  of  the  Spirit  of  Life  in 


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Christ  Jesus;  which  has  changed  the  Ordinance  of  that  Triune  Baptism, 
which  brings  with  it  death  to  sin,  life  in  God,  and  power  for  service ;  which 
has  broken  that  Everlasting  Covenant.  Have  mercy  upon  them. 

Open  the  eyes  of  multitudes  of  godly  men  and  women  and  ministers 
within  that  communion  to  see  the  truth,  to  receive  it,  and  to  be  set  free.  Let 
not  pride  rule  their  hearts.  Let  not  hatred  shut  the  door,  but  let  pride  and 
hatred  depart.  Bless  to  that  end  our  witnessing  for  Thee. 

Hear  us  for  Thy  people  everywhere.  Grace,  mercy  and  peace  be  with 
all  who  love  our  Lord  Jesus  in  sincerity. 

Bless  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  in  Zion  (Amen),  in  America 
(Amen),  in  Europe  (Amen),  in  Asia  (Amen),  in  Africa  (Amen),  in  Austral¬ 
asia  (Amen),  in  the  Islands  of  the  Sea.  (Amen.) 

Bless  the  words  that  shall  be  spoken  this  day,  to  earth’s  remotest  bounds. 

We  ask  this  and  the  presence  and  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit  in  the  Name 
of  Him  who  for  our  sakes  endured  the  Cross  and  despised  the  shame,  and  is 
now  set  down  at  the  right  hand  of  Thy  Throne,  oh  God  our  Father,  our  Advo¬ 
cate  with  Thee.  Hear  us  for  the  sake  of  Jesus,  who  in  the  days  of  His  flesh 
when  one  asked  Him,  “  Lord,  teach  us  to  pray,”  said,  “After  this  manner 
therefore  pray  ye”: 

The  Disciples’  Prayer  was  then  chanted  by  Zion  Choir  and 
congregation. 

The  announcements  were  then  made. 


BY  WHAT  AUTHORITY  DOEST  THOU  THESE 

THINGS? 


The  General  Overseer  then  delivered  the  following  prelude: 

Now  it  might  be  a  fitting  time  before  I  deliver  the  discourse 
of  today  to  utter  a  few  words  by  way  of  prelude. 

I  do  not  as  a  rule  read  the  prefaces  to  books.  They  are 
very  wearisome,  but  sometimes  they  are  very  necessary. 

If  you  will  permit,  I  think  that  it  would  be  proper  for  me  to 
answer  a  question  which  a  distinguished  minister  of  the  Meth¬ 
odist  body  asked  me  this  week: 

“By  what  authority  doest  thou  these  things?” 

“Who  gave  thee  this  authority?” 

The  same  questions  were  asked  of  Jesus  long  ago. 

He  was  an  untitled  teacher  without  any  rabbinical  rank,  the 
reputed  son  of  a  carpenter,  or  held  by  some  to  be  the  disreput¬ 
able  offspring  of  a  harlot.  That  horrible  and  foul  charge  is 
flung  to  this  day  in  the  face  of  the  Christian  Church  by  the 
accursed  representatives  of  modern  Spiritualism,  that  anti- 
christian  imposture.  That  heathen  cult  denies  the  divinity  of 
Christ  and  defil  es  the  good  name  of  the  Holy  Blessed  Virgin 
Mother,  the  purest  woman  who  ever  lived  on  earth.  God 
sanctified  her  and  made  her  Holy.  She  was  Blessed  by  God 
and  by  the  angel  whom  He  sent.  In  her  virginity  she  con¬ 
ceived  and  in  her  purity  as  a  Virgin  Mother  she  brought  forth 
that  Holy  Thing,  the  Son  of  God. 


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She  was  Holy,  because  God  made  her  so;  Blessed,  for 
heaven  so  proclaimed  her;  Virgin,  for  it  was  a  virgin  who  con¬ 
ceived  and  brought  forth  the  Son  of  God. 

Mother,  mother,  mother,  of  Him  who  bore  our  sins  and 
carried  our  sorrows  and  whose  heart  was  pierced1 

He  was  once  asked  that  question. 

By  what  authority  doest  Thou  these  things?  And  who  gave  Thee  this 
authority? 

“You  have  no  standing  among  the  rabbis,”  they  said  to 
Him;  “there  is  not  a  teacher  of  rabbinical  rank  who  will 
endorse  you.  You  have  no  station.  You  are  a  blasphemous 
wretch.” 

Do  you  remember  how  He  answered? 

He  said,  “The  Baptism  of  John,  whence  was  it?  From 
hea-ven,  or  of  men?  I  will  take  either  answer.  Tell  me.  Was 
it  of  heaven,  oh  Pharisees,  or  was  it  of  men?” 

But  they  were  crafty  Masons.  They  were  not  only  Entered 
Apprentices  and  Fellow  Craft  M^asons,  but  they  were  M^aster 
Masons.  They  had  not  studied  Solomon  for  nothing.  Like 
him,  “their  hearts  were  turned  away  after  other  gods” ;  they 
were,  as  he  was  before  he  died,  practically  “heathen”;  and  for 
this  God  was  angry  with  them  as  he  was  with  that  beastly 
Solomon  who  wound  up  his  life  by  going  after  Ashtoreth  the 
goddess  of  the  Zidonians,  Milcom  and  Molech  of  the  Ammon¬ 
ites,  Chemosh  of  the  Moabites,  and  many  others.  The  Phar¬ 
isees  of  Christ’s  time  were  traitors  to  the  Eternal  God,  and 
murderous  haters  of  His  Son. 

They  were  bad,  but  they  were  clever,  and  they  pondered 
over  His  divinely  wise  answer. 

They  said,  “If  we  say  from  heaven,  He  will  say,  ‘Why  did 
you  not  do  what  he  told  you,  then?  Why  did  you  not  believe 
in  Me?  He  told  you  I  was  the  Christ,  the  Lamb  of  God.  You 
remember  that  day  when  he  baptized  Me  amidst  a  crowd  of 
sinners  that  he  said:  ‘Behold,  the  Lamb  of  God  that  taketh 
away  the  sin  of  the  world.’  ” 

They  saw  the  point,  that  if  they  said  that  John’s  Baptism 
was  from  heaven,  then  they  were  in  a  corner,  because  they 
must  recognize  His  authority  as  the  Messiah. 

Then  they  looked  at  the  other  horn. 

There  was  a  “ram’s  horn  ”  and  a  goat’s  horn  (laughter),  and 
they  got  on  both  the  horns  that  time,  as  their  lineal  spiritual 
successors  did  in  Chicago  recently. 

There  are  two  horns  to  all  these  dilemmas,  and  the  othef 
horn  was  this :  “  If  we  say  that  the  Baptism  of  John  is  of  man- 

look  at  this  audience.”  (The  General  Overseer  at  this  point 
indicated  with  a  gesture  the  great  audience  of  over  3000  people 
then  present  in  the  Tabernacle.  The  effect  of  this  sudden  and 
dramatic  application  of  his  lesson  was  startling  and  convinc- 


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ing.)  (Laughter.)  “Look  at  this  audience.  Look  at  the 
crowds  who  have  gone  away,  because  they  could  not  find 
room.  Look  at  the  people.  We  are  afraid  of  the  people.” 
So  they  lied.  They  said,  “We  don’t  know.” 

I  WILL  ASK  YOU  THE  QUESTION,  “FROM  WHOM  IS  MY  MINISTRY?” 

When  you  have  settled  where  my  ministry  comes  from; 
when  you  have  settled  whether  Salvation,  and  Healing,  and 
Holy  Living  come  from  the  Devil  or  from  God,  I  will  answer 
your  questions.  (Applause.  Amens.) 

Let  every  one  who  has  been  blessed  by  Salvation  and 
Healing  in  Zion  arise.  (Instantly  the  witnesses  arose,  with 
faces  glowing  with  joy.  On  every  side  they  told  by  rising  the 
wonderful  story  of  God’s  saving  and  healing  power  manifested 
in  Zion  until  2500,  a  veritable  cloud  of  witnesses,  were  upon 
their  feet.) 

Now,  you  Methodists,  look  around.  It  is  a  good  sight  for 
your  eyes. 

Overseer  Piper  (referring  to  the  Methodists) — They  are  all 
sitting. 

Dr.  Dowie — I  suppose  that  at  least  2500  persons  are  now 
standing.  There  are  over  3000  persons  in  this  building  now. 
Did  God  bless  you  in  Zion? 

Answer — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  He  heal  you? 

Answer — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Were  you  sick? 

Answer — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  that  healing  come  from  God  or  the 
Devil? 

Answer — “  God.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Have  you  no  fear  of  the  Methodist  Confer¬ 
ence? 

Answer — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — How  many  of  you  were  Methodists?  (Laugh¬ 
ter.)  Put  up  your  hands.  (Hundreds  of  hands  were  raised. 
Applause.) 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  I  charge  you  anything? 

Answer — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie— Do  you  know  anybody  I  ever  did? 

Answer— “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Thank  you  very  much.  Sit  down. 

That  might  help  the  Methodists.  You  cannot  find  that 
answer  in  the  Auditorium.  (Laughter.) 

In  what  Methodist  Church  today  will  you  find  2500  persons 
who  will  arise  and  say,  “God  healed  us  through  the  Methodist 
ministry”? 

That  is  the  question  you  have  to  deal  with. 


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When  you  settle  whether  Salvation,  Healing  and  Holy 
Living  come  from  God  or  the  Devil,  then  you  can  settle  where 
my  authority  comes  from. 

A  WORD  TO  TRUE  CHRISTIANS  IN  THE  METHODIST  MINISTRY. 

My  brothers  who  are  really  Christians,  who  really  have  not 
bowed  the  knee  to  Baal;  you  small  remnant  of  the  leaders  of 
the  Methodist  body  who  have  not  been  among  those  who  have 
bowed  in  the  East  to  the  Worshipful  Master,  and  in  the  South 
to  another  officer,  and  in  the  West  to  another,  with  your  eyes 
blindfolded  and  all  your  clothes  off  excepting  a  dirty  under¬ 
vest  and  a  miserable  pair  of  drawers,  and  one  shoe  off  and  one 
shoe  on  (laughter),  and  a  tow-rope  around  your  necks;  all  who 
have  not  been  towed  around  the  secret  chamber  of  Baal,  I 
say  to  you,  my  brothers,  how  can  you  remain  with  such  asso¬ 
ciations? 

I  have  no  respect,  not  an  atom,  for  the  hypocrites  who 
know  that  they  cannot  serve  God  and  Baal  and  are  the  pre¬ 
tended  servants  of  both.  But  for  you,  my  brothers  and  sisters 
who  have  not  yet  bowed  the  knee  "to  Baal,  I  pray:  May  God 
bring  you  out.  (Amen.) 

I  have  no  hatred. 

May  God  open  the  eyes  of  those  who  have  bowed  the  knee 
to  Baal  to  see  their  terrible  sin,  before  the  Sword  of  God  shall 
hew  them  to  pieces,  as  in  the  hands  of  Elijah  it  did  at  the 
foot  of  Carmel’s  mountain.  I  will  talk  of  that  story  next 
week. 

I  shall  say  nothing  but  that  which  I  believe  to  be  true.  As 
far  as  was  possible  to  verify,  I  have  done  so. 

May  God  help  us,  and  at  the  end  of  this  fight  may  God  give 
victory  to  the  right.  (Amen.) 

That  which  is  a  great  trouble  to  some  will  now  happen. 
You  will  give  your  offerings,  and  give  your — what? 

Voices — “  Tithes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  you  believe  in  tithing? 

Answer — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Has  God  blessed  you  in  giving? 

Answer — “  Y  es.” 

Dr.  Dowie — He  has?  Any  who  have  been  poorer  for  giving 
their  tithes,  speak  up  and  say  Aye. 

Two  voices  answered  “Aye.” 

Dr.  Dowie — There  were  two.  (Applause  and  laughter  from 
strangers  in  the  Tabernacle.) 

Wait  a  minute.  I  think  that  was  a  mistake.  I  will  put  it 
again.  Any  who  are  poorer  for  giving  their  tithes,  say  Aye. 
(No  answer.  Applause.) 

I  shall  ask  those  who  said  aye,  Was  it  a  mistake? 

Answer — “  Yes.” 


10  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

Dr.  Dowie — Thank  you.  You  clapped  too  soon,  you  Meth¬ 
odists.  (Laughter.)  You  were  “  taken  in.”  I  will  put  it  again. 
I  want  that  point  settled  in  Central  Zion  Tabernacle  today 
beyond  dispute.  I  will  put  it  affirmatively.  Have  you  been 
blessed  since  you  gave  your  tithes? 

Answer — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Any  who  have  not,  say  No.  (No  answer.) 
That  is  the  answer  in  Zion. 

GOD  HAS  BLESSED,  FINANCIALLY,  THOSE  WHO  HAVE  PAID  THEIR 

TITHES. 

I  only  said  that  because  we  are  attacked  everywhere  about 
these  tithes.  There  is  no  difficulty  in  Zion  about  it.  I  want 
to  know  why  people  should  object  who  do  not  give  anything? 
(Laughter.  Applause.)  They  might  leave  that  to  the  people 
who  give.  May  God  bless  you. 

Pray  for  me  now.  The  tithes  and  offerings  will  be  received. 
While  the  ushers  gathered  the  offerings  of  the  people,  Zion’s 
Choir  sang  the  anthem,  “Praise  ye  the  Father!”  with  splendid 
volume,  harmony  and  expression. 


THE  METHODISTS’  “SEAL  OF  THE  COVENANT” 

EXAMINED. 


INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditations  of  my  heart  be  accept¬ 
able  in  Thy  sight,  be  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom  these 
words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  in  this  and  all  the  coming  time, 
till  Jesus  come,  for  His  sake.  Amen. 

I  am  to  speak  to  you  this  afternoon  concerning  the  Metho¬ 
dists’  “Seal  of  the  Covenant,”  a  well-known  document  issued 
by  all  the  official  organs  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
The  copy  upon  which  I  shall  speak  today  is  one  of  the  official 
copies,  it  is  that  of  one  of  their  official  papers,  the  Omaha 
Christian  Advocate  of  March  3d,  the  same  date  as  that  upon 
which  the  Rams  Horn  uttered  its  blast  against  Zion,  and  came 
to  nothing  but  shame. 

In  the  front  of  all  I  have  to  say  today  I  will  place  the  words 
which  I  read  to  you  in  the  twenty-fourth  chapter  of  the  book 
of  the  Prophet  Isaiah,  the  fifth  verse: 

TEXT. 

The  earth  also  is  polluted  under  the  inhabitants  thereof;  because  they 
have  transgressed  the  Laws,  changed  the  Ordinance,  broken  the  Everlast¬ 
ing  Covenant. 

This  discourse  is  introductory.  I  propose  in  it  to  deal  only 
with  the  first  official  document  issued  in  connection  with  the 
Call  to  Humiliation  and  Prayer  by  the  Board  of  Bishops  of  the 


“Thou  shalt  grope  at  Noonday,  as  the 
Blind  gropetb  in  Darkness,  and  toon  shalt 
not  prefer  in  thy  ways:  .  .  .  and 
there  shall  be  NONE  TO  SAVE  THEE." 
Deuteronomy  j&  x). 


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METHODISM  CLINGING  TO  MAH-HAH-BQNE  IN  THE 
DARKNESS  OF  MASONRY. 


"Jesus  spake  onto  them,  saying,  lam 
the  Light  of  the  World  he  that  followeth 
Me  shall  aNOT  WALK  IN  THE  DARK¬ 
NESS,  but  shall  ba»c  the  Light  of  Life  ” 
John  8:  ta. 


Facing  Page  io, 


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II 


Methodist — or,  as  we  call  it  in  Zion,  Masonic-Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Church. 

It  is  within  our  right  to  examine  a  document  of  this  kind 
which  is  not  only  an  appeal  to  the  members  of  that  Church,  but 
which  spreads  before  the  whole  community  the  present  condi¬ 
tion  of  that  Church. 

It  is  to  be  admitted  that  this  document  is  in  strong  contrast 
with  that  which  was  issued  last  week  to  the  meager  audiences 
which  attend  the  Conference  in  the  Auditorium;  for  there  are 
more  people  in  Central  Zion  Tabernacle  now  than  there  have 
been  in  the  Auditorium  at  any  one  time  during  this  last  week. 

Today  while  we  are  speaking  the  report  is  sent  in  that  with 
one  of  the  greatest  Bishops  speaking  at  the  Auditorium,  the 
first  floor  is  full,  the  balcony  one-quarter  full,  the  galleries 
empty.  I  will  tell  you  how  many  there  are  there,  if  that  report 
is  correct.  About  2000!  At  the  outside  calculation  2500  are 
listening  to  that  Bishop. 

There  are  more  than  3000  now  present  in  Central  Zion 
Tabernacle,  and  I  am  told  that  hundreds  have  gone  away  for 
want  of  room. 

I  know  what  the  Auditorium  holds,  because  I  preached 
there  for  six  months.  I  know  exactly  what  it  holds.  Its 
entire  seating  capacity,  exclusive  of  the  stage,  filling  the 
highest  gallery,  is  4037.  Our  seating  capacity  is  over  3000. 

Before  the  meager  audience  of  last  Tuesday  an  aged  Bishop 
endeavored  to  put  another  document  before  the  people,  but  it 
was  too  late.  “The  statesmanlike  document,”  as  they  called 
it,  was  a  piece  of  ecclesiastical  politics  that  came  too  late. 

It  is  fair  that  I  should  examine  the  document  which  I  hold 
in  my  hand  today.  It  was  written  by  the  most  crooked  of  all 
the  Bishops.  His  policy  is  held  in  contempt  even  by  his 
political  associates.  I  refer  to  Bishop  Charles  H.  Fowler. 

BISHOP  FOWLER  THE  CHIEF  OF  BAAL-WORSHIPING  APOSTATES. 

This  document  was  written  by  that  Bishop,  who  is  the  chief 
of  the  apostates  of  that  Church  as  regards  Freemasonry.  He 
is  the  Grand  Chaplain  of  that  Order  for  Pennsylvania.  He  and 
the  Bishop  who  is  speaking  at  the  Auditorium,  this  afternoon, 
were  rebuked  publicly  this  last  week  for  selling  their  services 
to  their  own  Church,  after  being  already  paid.  They  were 
charged  with  demanding  sums  of  money  before  they  would 
even  dedicate  churches.  In  one  case  the  church  was  called  by 
the  Bishop’s  own  name.  These  men  were  publicly  challenged 
with  having  made  God’s  House  a  place  of  merchandise  and, 
it  might  well  have  been  added,  a  den  of  thieves.  But  they 
must  bear  their  own  burden. 

Charles  H.  Fowler  was  not  the  man  to  malign  his  own 
Church.  In  writing  this  document  he  knew  that  the  things 


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he  wrote  were  true.  Bishop  Ninde,  a  noble  man,  who  added 
his  name  to  this  document,  would  not  have  endorsed  it  had  it 
not,  in  his  judgment,  represented  the  facts.  Bishop  Joyce,  the 
other  signer  to  the  Call,  is,  I  am  informed,  a  Freemason  of 
high  degree,  and  he  could,  therefore,  be  depended  upon  to 
endorse  the  statements  of  his  fellow  Masonic-Methodist 
Bishop. 

I  therefore  have  a  right  to  consider  that  this  document 
forms  a  proper  basis  for  this  series  of  exposures  upon  which  I 
enter  today.  I  allege  that  which  I  have  a  right  to  be  called 
upon  to  prove,  that  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has  been 
sold  out  by  its  leaders  to  the  World,  the  Flesh  and  the 
Devil. 

The  examination  of  this  document  will  prove  it. 

I  will  take  thirteen  statements  from  its  voluminous  utter¬ 
ances. 

Here  they  are: 

APPALLING  LOSS  OF  MEMBERS  BY  THE  METHODIST  CHURCH. 

Today  our  Methodism  confronts  a  serious  situation.  Our  statistics  for 
the  last  year  show  a  decrease  in  the  number  of  our  members. 

That  is  their  first  statement.  Why  did  he  not  tell  all  the 
truth?  Why  did  he  not  tell  that  they  had  lost  every  one 
who  had  been  added  to  their  communion  last  year,  and  nearly 
24,000  more,  according  to  the  figures  supplied  to  the  New  York 
Independent  by  the  Rev.  H.  K.  Carroll,  LL.  D.,  a  leading 
Methodist  Episcopal  minister,  in  its  issue  of  January  4,  1900, 
page  38?  Why  did  he  not  tell  the  Church  in  plain  terms  that 
they  had  lost  the  whole  year’s  labor  and  24,000  more  mem¬ 
bers?  They  lost  hundreds  of  thousands.  If  you  tell  me.  that 
the  new  members  remained,  then  they  lost  hundreds  of  thou¬ 
sands  of  the  old. 

That  is  the  first  statement  I  make. 

It  is  not  a  loss  merely  of  24,000,  but  it  is  a  loss  of  24,000 
plus  all  they  allege  that  they  gained. 

A  terrific  state  of  affairs,  is  it  not?  Millions  of  men  and 
women  prayed  millions  of  prayers  every  day;  millions  of 
services  were  conducted;  yet*  all  they  gained  was  lost,  and 
24,000  more ! 

Is  there  a  man  engaged  in  commercial  business  who  would 
not  say  that  a  business  so  conducted  had  gone  to  the  “bow¬ 
wows”;  that  it  was  time  to  close  up  and  invest  his  capital  else¬ 
where?  There  is  not  a  business  man  but  would  say  the 
same. 

The  year  before  that  their  best  calculation  was  about  one- 
sixth  of  one  percent  gained.  Is  there  one  man  would  conduct 
business  upon  such  a  basis?  Will  God  continue  to  conduct 
business  with  such  a  Church?  It  is  a  fruitless  tree,  which  has 


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ceased  to  grow,  and  is,  therefore,  dying;  nay,  more,  it  is 
dead. 

“who  slew  all  these?” 

The  second  point  in  this  is: 

Year  before  last  our  advance  was  checked.  Last  year  our  advance 
column  has  been  forced  back  a  little.  The  lost  ground  is  paved  with  the 
dead. 

I  ask  you  to  note  the  admission  that  the  ground  that  this 
Church  has  lost  is  paved  with  their  own  dead. 

Who  slew  them?  Why  do  you  not  face  it? 

“Who  slew  all  these?” 

The  man  who  wrote  it  helped  to  slay  them.  The  man  who 
wrote  it,  and  hypocritically  weeps  over  the  dead,  led  the  mur¬ 
der,  spiritually,  of  his  own  people.  The  hand  which  tells  the 
story  is  one  of  the  hands  that  slew  them.  They  were  slain  by 
Baal  and  his  ministers,  of  whom  one  of  the  chief  is  Charles  H. 
Fowler. 

LOST  SINNERS  MEMBERS  OF  THE  METHODIST  CHURCH. 

Third : 

And  there  are  now  unhappily  many  Methodists  who  lack  present  knowl¬ 
edge  of  New  Testament  salvation. 

Which  means,  in  plain  English,  there  are  a  great  many 
Methodists  in  the  Church  who  are  damned,  and  all  this  Bishop 
calls  that  lost  condition  is,  that  “they  slipped  a  cog.” 
(Laughter.) 

If  a  man  has  no  present  knowledge  of  Salvation,  is  he  saved? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Has  he  any  right  to  expect  us  to  believe  that 
he  is  saved? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Hence  the  Methodist  Church  has  in  its  mem¬ 
bership  a  large  number  of  unsaved  people.  Even  the  numbers 
which  they  claim  are  a  sham,  a  delusion  and  a  snare. 

THE  METHODIST  CHURCH  PEOPLED  WITH  THE  DEAD,  SPIRITUALLY. 

He  says  many  are  in  the  Methodist  Church  now  who 

Have  slipped  a  cog  in  their  experience,  and,  like  many  old  families 
who  have  to  date  back  to  some  buried  ancestor  to  find  their  virtue  and  title 
to  their  nobility,  have  to  date  back  to  some  dead  experience  to  find  their 
assurance  and  title  to  spiritual  nobility. 

What!  If  a  man  has  to  date  back  his  title  to  Methodist 
nobility  to  a  dead  experience,  is  he  not  a  dead  man?  Is  there 
anything  noble  about  him?  Is  he  not  an  ignoble  wretch  who  is 
a  hypocrite,  who  walks  about  with  a  dead  experience,  and 
does  not  know  a  Living  God?  The  dead  are  corrupt.  They 
also  spread  corruption.  Let  them  be  buried,  if  they  will  not 
be  converted. 


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I  am  showing  what  the  Church  is,  according  to  its  own 
Bishops’  position,  and  examining  this  document  which  they 
call  the  “Seal  of  the  Covenant.” 

What  covenant  is  that?  It  is  a  covenant  with  death  which 
has  the  seal  of  these  Bishops  upon  it — an  agreement  with  hell. 

I  marvel  at  the  blindness  of  the  men  who  sent  this  docu¬ 
ment  forth. 

THE  METHODIST  CHURCH  RETREATING  IN  THE  FACE  OF  THE 

ENEMY. 

Fifth: 

We  have  great  organized  benevolences.  .  .  .  We  have  successful 

revivals  reported.  .  .  .  We  bow  with  grateful  hearts,  remembering  what 

God  has  done  for  us.  But  when  we  see  how  little  we  have  done  for  Him, 
how  we  are  retreating  in  spite  of  all  our  appliances,  we  feel  our  lack  of 
power. 

What!  This  brave  Church  retreating?  Retreating  in  spite 
of  their  appliances!  Who  makes  them  retreat?  Who  is  the 
cause  of  their  retreat?  Can  that  Church  be  a  Church  of  the 
Living  God  which  is  retreating  in  the  face  of  the  Devil? 

That  Church  is  a  Church  of  cowards,  full  of  fear;  and  it  is 
the  fearful  who  lead  the  procession  to  hell:  for  it  is  written: 

The  fearful,  and  unbelieving,  and  abominable,  and  murderers,  and 
fornicators,  and  sorcerers,  and  idolators,  and  all  liars,  their  part  shall  be  in 
the  lake  that  burneth  with  fire  and  brimstone;  which  is  the  second  death. 

God’s  Word  says  it;  and  if  this  is  a  Church  of  cowards  who 
are  retreating,  then  they  are  retreating  back  upon  the  lake  of  ] 
fire,  and  upon  the  second  death. 

They  say,  “We  feel  our  lack  of  power.” 

Is  that  the  Church  of  the  Living  God  which  lacks  power? 
When  power,  whether  you  call  it  exonsia  (e£ou<na),  authority,  or 
Svva /us,  force,  is  gone,  it  is  time  for  that  Church  to  be  buried. 

Does  God  in  Heaven  want  a  Church  without  power? 

BISHOP  FOWLER’S  UNFORTUNATE  SCRIPTURAL  ALLUSION. 

Bishop  Fowler  further  says: 

We  can  only  fall  on  our  faces  and  cry  to  Him  to  have  mercy  upon  us 
and  “not  cut  us  down,  but  spare  us  another  year,”  and  dig  about  us  and 
fertilize  us. 

Why  did  he  not  say  “dung  us.”  Even  the  Revised  Version 
says  “dung,”  not  “fertilize.”  The  old  Greek  word  kopria 
( Koirpia )  has  just  that  meaning  of  “dung,”  manure.  But  what 
was  elegant  enough  for  Jesus  Himself  to  use  in  the  parable  of 
the  Barren  Fig  Tree  in  Luke  13,  was  not  elegant  enough  for 
the  Barren  Bishop! 

And  see  if  we  will  not  do  better.  (Laughter.) 

What!  Does  he  forget  the  parable?  Does  he  forget  the 
passage  of  God’s  Word  from  which  this  is  misquoted? 

Do  you  not  remember  it? 


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Christ  said  that  the  Jewish  Church  of  His  day  was  like  unto 
a  tree  to  which  the  master  of  the  orchard  came  seeking  fruit, 
and  found  none.  He  found  nothing  but  leaves,  as  you  find  in 
this  Methodist  Church — leaves,  professions  loud  and  strong  and 
confessions  of  death.  In  one  breath  they  tell  you  of  their 
strength.  In  another  they  tell  you  that  the  ground  is  paved 
with  the  dead;  that  they  have  lost  power,  and  are  retreat¬ 
ing. 

The  Master  said : 

Behold,  these  three  years  I  come  seeking  fruit  on  this  fig  tree,  and  find 
none:  cut  it  down;  why  doth  it  also  cumber  the  ground? 

The  vinedresser  said: 

Lord,  let  it  alone  this  year  also,  till  I  dig  about  it,  and  dung  it :  and  if  it 
shall  bear  fruit  thenceforth,  well;  but  if  not,  Thou  shalt  cut  it  down. 

That  parable  was  spoken,  probably,  about  the  beginning  of 
the  third  year  of  the  Lord’s  ministry.  Another  year  was 
given,  and  what  did  they  do  in  that  year?  Did  they  do  any 
better?  No,  they  did  worse.  When  the  end  of  that  year 
had  come  they  had  plotted  the  death  of  Jesus,  and  He  had 
to  utter  the  doom  of  the  Church  and  of  the  Nation.  That 
Church  God  had  planted  with  His  own  hand  fifteen  hundred 
years  before;  that  Nation  God  had  preserved  for  nearly  twenty 
centuries.  Yet  Christ  on  Olivet’s  mountain  had  to  cry:  “Your 
house  is  left  unto  you  desolate,”  and  to  foretell  the  doom  and 
destruction  of  the  City,  the  Church  and  the  Nation. 

I  tell  you  today,  Charles  H.  Fowler— I  tell  you  today, 
Bishops,  Elders  and  members  of  the  Masonic-Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Church,  that  God  has  digged  about  you,  and  dunged  you, 
and  you  will  bring  forth  no  fruL  ,  therefore,  He  has  put  the  axe 
in  my  hand  and  said,  “Cut  it  down.  Why  doth  it  also  cumber 
the  ground?”  (Applause.) 

Eighth: 

Let  us  not  deceive  ourselves.  This  decline  in  our  membership  is  not 
an  accident.  It  comes  from  a  sufficient  cause.  That  cause  is  the  slipping 
cog  in  our  experience,  our  lack  of  spiritual  power. 

It  is  not  an  accident?  No,  sir;  you  are  right.  It  is  not  an 
accident. 

A  CHALLENGE  TO  REV.  DR.  J.  M.  BUCKLEY. 

I  hold  in  my  hand  the  New  York  Christian  Advocate  of  April 
26th,  edited  by  Dr.  Buckley,  a  distinguished  member  of  this 
Conference,  who  spoke,  I  was  informed,  but  perhaps  it  was  a 
slight  exaggeration,  about  800  times  in  the  last  Conference  and 
is  likely  to  speak  a  thousand  times  in  this.  (Laughter.) 

I  admire  him.  I  would  like  to  get  him  on  this  platform 
and  have  him  tell  you  what  he  has  told  others:  that  Dr.  Dowie 
is  a  fraud  and  Divine  Healing  a  lie.  I  would  fixe  to  have  him 
here.  I  would  like  to  give  him  an  hour  to  show  that  Divine 
Healing  is  a  lie.  I  would  like  to  take  another  hour  to  pound 


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him,  and  show  him  what  you  could  show  him  and  have  shown 
today.  I  would  like  to  deal  with  him,  and  I  venture  to  utter 
this  challenge: 

Dr.  J.  M.  Buckley,  you  have  talked  about  us  all  over  this 
country;  accept  an  invitation  to  come  to  Zion  Tabernacle,  and 
let  us  hear  you  here  (applause) ;  and  I  will  promise  you  a  larger 
congregation  than  Bishop  Vincent  has  today.  I  issue  this 
invitation  on  one  condition:  that,  after  you  have  had  your  say 
for  an  hour — and  I  am  sure  I  will  not  interrupt  you — you  shall 
sit  still  while  I  have  mine  for  an  hour.  (Applause  and  laugh¬ 
ter.)  If  you  desire  to  take  it  for  a  week,  Dr.  Buckley,  come 
along,  and  Chicago  will  fill  this  house  to  overflowing. 

But  you  will  not  come,  Dr.  Buckley.  You  are  a  knowing 
little  Methodist.  You  are  a  smart  little  man. 

You  are  like  Hudibras.  You  can  sing  his  song: 

He  who  fights  and  runs  away 
Will  live  to  fight  another  day; 

But  he  who  is  in  battle  slain 
Will  never  live  to  fight  again. 

I  will  promise  to  hand  you  over  in  small  pieces,  metaphor¬ 
ically  speaking,  to  the  Conference.  (Laughter.)  Come  on. 

You  cannot  say  that  I  am  too  contemptible,  because  you 
know  that  if  Divine  Healing  has  any  one  man  who  leads  it  in 
this  world,  I  am  that  man.  (Amen.  Applause.)  My  enemies 
have  said  that,  and  they  have  printed  it,  too. 

You  have  to  deal  with  me,  Dr.  J.  M.  Buckley.  You  are  a 
nice  little  man,  but  you  know  how  to  talk  where  you  cannot 
get  hurt. 

Like  Hudibras,  it  may  be  said  of  Dr.  Buckley: 

He  was  a  shrewd  Philosopher, 

And  had  read  every  text  and  gloss  over: 

Whate’er  the  crabbed’st  author  hath, 

He  understood  b’  implicit  Faith: 

Whatever  Skeptic  could  inquire  for: 

For  every  Why  he  had  a  Wherefore: 

Knew  more  than  forty  of  them  (at  Conference)  do, 

As  far  as  words  and  terms  could  go. 

All  which  he  understood  by  rote, 

And,  as  occasion  served,  would  quote ; 

No  matter  whether  right  or  wrong, 

What  might  be  either  said  or  sung. 

However,  Dr.  Buckley  is  a  very  able  editor.  He  is  a  very 
able  man,  especially  able  when  he  fights  where  you  cannot 
reach  him. 

I  watch  him  very  closely.  I  read  his  writings  with  great 
interest,  and  have  prepared  quite  a  careful  spanking  for  him 
during  the  next  nine  days. 

I  thank  him  also  for  many  disclosures  of  facts. 

Dr.  Buckley  publishes  an  article  in  the  New  York  Christian 
Advocate  of  April  26th,  current  number,  page  1 1,  Number  651,  in 


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which  the  Hon.  J.  W.  F.  White,  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Com¬ 
mon  Pleas,  has  an  article  on  “The  Decline  in  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church.” 

SIGNIFICANT  ARTICLE  BY  JUDGE  J.  W.  F.  WHITE. 

Judge  White  opens  his  article,  which  Dr.  Buckley  publishes, 
and  for  which  he  is  editorially  responsible,  by  saying: 

I  have  been  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  for  sixty- 
five  years,  and  my  memory  goes  back  several  years  longer. 

He  speaks  concerning  this  “Seal  of  the  Covenant,”  and  at 
this  point  it  will  be  proper  to  introduce  his  testimony.  He 
says : 

In  my  judgment  the  paramount  cause  of  the  decline  was  the  loss  of  the 
revival  spirit  in  the  Churchy  and  this  was  the  result  of  two  causes :  first, 
worldliness  in  the  laity;  and,  second,  lack  of  spirituality  in  the  ministry. 
I  say  the  loss  of  the  revival  spirit;  it  is  more  than  a  decline.  The  old 
revival  spirit  has  gone  out  of  fashion — is  abandoned — lost. 

•  •••••••••«« 

Formerly,  if  an  unconverted  person  joined  the  Church — 

My  good  Lord,  do  unconverted  persons  join  the  Methodist 
Church? 

Are  there  any  unconverted  who  join  Zion?  If  there  are 
any,  I  want  to  know,  because  they  have  lied,  and  I  will  have 
them  out  very  quickly.  You  report  them.  They  shall  not 
remain  in  Zion — unconverted.  Not  if  I  know  it.  Such  per¬ 
sons  may  be  acceptable  to  the  apostate  churches;  they  cannot 
remain  in  Zion. 

What  business  has  an  unconverted  person  in  the  Church? 
The  Church  is  a  Church  of  converted  people,  or  it  is  no 
Church. 

I  beg  your  pardon — it  is  a  Methodist  Church.  (Laughter.) 
It  is  no  Church  of  God. 

Formerly,  if  an  unconverted  person  joined  the  Church,  he  was  urged 
to  seek  conversion  and  never  rest  till  he  obtained  the  witness  of  his  par¬ 
don.  Now  how  is  it?  The  unconverted  join,  scarcely  hear  a  word  about 
conversion,  and  never  have  any  personal  religious  experience.  What  Jesus 
said  to  Nicodemus  is  forgotten — the  new  birth  is  seldom  referred  to  in  the 
pulpit. 

Why  is  all  this?  Because  so  many  have  joined  the  Church  who  are 
satisfied  being  members  of  the  Church,  without  experiencing  the  new  birth 
or  having  any  personal  religious  experience. 

Then,  if  that  is  the  case,  Judge  White;  if  that  is  the  case, 
Bishops  of  the  Church,  what  kind  of  a  Church  is  your  Church? 
A  Church  where  regeneration  is  almost  never  spoken  of,  and 
where  conversion  is  not  required. 

IT  IS  A  CHURCH  OF  THE  DEVIL. 

It  is  not  a  Church  of  God.  It  is  a  Church  of  people  who 
are  dead  in  trespasses  and  sin,  who  are  not  alive  to  God. 

How  can  it  be  the  Church  of  God?  The  Church  of  God  con¬ 
sists  of  those  who  have  been  redeemed,  who  through  Repen- 


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tance  and  Faith  and  Obedience  have  the  seal  and  the  witness  of 
the  Spirit,  and  whose  lives  are  in  accordance  with  their  profes¬ 
sion. 

Is  that  not  a  Christian  definition  of  the  Church  and  the 
conditions  for  fellowship?  These  are  the  universal  conditions. 

Now  I  will  add  another  word  of  Judge  White’s  experience. 
He  says: 

They  are  very  respectable  people,  generally  of  wealthy  and  fashionable 
families.  They  participate  in  the  fashionable  amusements  of  the  day,  fre¬ 
quent  theatres,  operas,  etc.  They  do  not  want  to  hear  from  the  pulpit  the 
plain  old  Gospel. 

They  would  never  come  to  Zion  then. 

They  want  a  fine  church,  select  choir, — 

We  have  that. 

— good  society. 

We  have  that;  but  our  “good  society”  might  not  suit  the 
fine  folks  who  change  “dung”  into  “fertilize,”  and  who  call 
backsliding  and  spiritual  death,  “slipping  a  cog.” 

The  preacher  must  give  them  nice,  pleasing  sermons  on  such  themes 
as  do  not  touch  their  daily  life  or  intimate  they  are  not  all  good  Christians. 
As  they  pay  the  preacher  well,  he  gratifies  them  and  is  perfectly  happy. 

That  is  what  Judge  White,  sixty-five  years  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Church,  said  only  a  week  ago  last  Thursday  in  New 
York.  I  therefore  am  justified  in  calling  your  attention  to  the 
fact  that  the  Bishops  and  leading  members  tell  us  that  the 
Methodist  Church  has  gone  to  the  Devil;  that  it  does  not  even 
pretend  to  confine  its  fellowship  to  persons  who  are  converted. 

Theatres,  operas!  Think  of  one  opera.  Think  of  the 
opera  of  Faust.  Think  of  that  opera  of  Goethe’s  in  which 
Faust,  a  Doctor;  Marguerite,  a  Harlot;  and  Mephistopheles, 
the  Devil,  are  the  delightful  trinity. 

Is  that  going  to  help  any  one  to  heaven? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Yet  they  tell  you  plainly  that  the  Methodist 
Church  members  go  to  such  operas. 

Ninth  point: 

We  have  one  dire  disease^  -spiritual  famine — lack  of  the  witness  of  the 
Spirit,  lack  of  personal  experience,  lack  of  spiritual  power.  And  the 
symptoms  are  many  and  varied,  but  the  disease  is  one. 

Then  I  tell  you  out  of  your  own  mouth:  I  say  that  the 
Church  which  has  that  disease  has  leprosy  in  its  walls,  and  it 
is  time  it  were  smashed  and  the  people  set  free. 

THE  CURSE  OF  AMUSEMENT-SEEKING  TO  NATION  AND  CHURCH. 

Tenth.  In  their  own  words : 

Amusements  are  sought  after  as  if  they  were  a  necessity.  Like  little 
children,  people  of  all  ages — 

In  this  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

— think  they  must  be  amused. 


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How  low  is  the  standard  of  a  Nation,  let  alone  a  Church, 
where  the  cry  is  simply  for  bread  and  for  games? 

When  that  cry  was  heard  in  ancient  Rome,  “bread  and  the 
games,”  the  noblest  of  her  citizens  foretold  the  doom  of  the 
republic. 

In  any  Nation,  let  alone  a  Church,  where  the  people  are 
seeking  for  mere  amusement  and  mere  bread,  that  Nation  has 
gone  to  political,  social,  commercial  destruction. 

It  will  fail  as  a  military  power,  and  it  will  perish  as  a 
national  power.  Let  that  spirit  be  supreme  in  a  Nation,  and 
it  is  doomed.  But  in  a  Church — the  Church  has  gone  which 
has  that.  The  Bishops  are  right. 

I  can  only  tell  you  that  if  I  were  to  give  you  the  stories 
which  come  to  me  in  hundreds  of  cases  of  why  persons  have 
come  into  Zion,  it  would  be  a  terrible  indictment  on  this  line. 

A  gentleman  in  Wisconsin,  a  little  more  than  two  years  ago, 
informed  me  that  he  had  been  an  attendant  upon  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  all  his  life.  That  he  had  in  due  time  become, 
in  a  certain  town,  the  Superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School, 
President  of  the  Epworth  League,  a  member  of  the  board  of 
management,  etc. 

He  wrote  me  that  he  had  been  a  reader  of  Leaves  of 
Healing  for  some  time,  loved  its  Message  and  myself  as  God’s 
Messenger,  but  felt  that  I  was  sometimes  too  harsh  in  my 
judgment  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

He  thought  that  I  should  have  sought  to  reform  and  not 
destroy  it.  He  said  he  had  prayed  God  many  a  time  in  some 
such  words  as  these:  “Oh  God,  help  Dr.  Dowie  to  reform  the 
Methodist  Church.” 

After  saying  all  this,  he  said,  “But  I  was  all  wrong,  and 
with  this  letter  I  enclose  you  my  application  for  fellowship.  I 
beseech  you  to  receive  me  into  the  fellowship  of  the  Christian 
Catholic  Church  in  Zion.” 

He  then  told  me  why  he  came  to  the  Gates  of  Zion.  It 
was  because  public  announcement  had  been  made  that  instead 
of  an  all-night  of  prayer  on  December  31,  1897,  such  as  we 
always  have  in  Zion,  the  First  M.  E.  Church  of  that  place  had 
provided  a  New  Year’s  PAe  Concert  and  Supper  in  the  church 
parlors,  with  games  of  various  kinds,  and  as  a  grand  finale ,  the 
Entertainment  was  to  wind  up  with  a  kinetescope  repre¬ 
sentation  of  the  Prize  Fight  between  Corbett  and  Fitzsimmons. 
(Laughter.) 

He  told  me  that  when  he  saw  these  announcements  he 
went  to  his  pastor  and  said,  “Sir,  you  have  been  minister  of 
this  church  for  years,  and,  so  far  as  I  know,  you  have  not  had 
a  single  conversion.  You  have  vexed  my  soul  every  hour  of 
the  time  you  have  been  here  with  your  worldly  ways,  and  now 
you  show  me  that  Dr.  Dowie  is  right,  and  that  the  Church  has 


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wholly  gone  to  the  Devil.  I  repudiate  all  my  promises  to  sup¬ 
port  such  a  Church:  for  I  intended  my  money  to  be  given  for 
the  extension  of  the  Kingdom  of  God,  and  not  to  the  building 
up  of  a  Church  of  the  Devil;  and  I  come  to  tell  you  that  here 
is  the  resignation  of  my  membership  and  all  my  offices.” 

He  then  said  that  he  enclosed  me  $85  back  tithes,  and 
shortly  after  he  sent  me  $30  more. 

This  illustrates  where  Masonic  Bishops  and  ministers  have 
led  the  Methodist  Church,  and  how  Zion  is  seen  to  be  a  refuge 
for  the  afflicted  of  God’s  people.  (Applause.) 

Let  me  tell  you  why  you  have  been  losing  your  members. 

Among  other  reasons,  they  see  that  you  who  are  leaders 
have  gone  to  the  World,  the  Flesh  and  the  Devil.  You  have 
sold  them  out,  and  their  eyes  are  opened,  and  they  are 
going  to  flock  to  Zion  in  tens  of  thousands.  (Applause.  Amen.) 

I  have  tens  of  thousands  now.  I  believe  hundreds  of  thou¬ 
sands  are  seeking  the  way  to  Zion  with  their  faces  thitherward. 

ZION  WILL  GET  ALL  THE  SHEEP  AND  LEAVE  THE  GOATS  TO  THE 

METHODISTS. 

That  will  suit  them,  because  they  need  the  goats  in  the 
Secrect  Societies.  (Applause  and  laughter.) 

They  ride  the  goat.  How  do  I  know?  I  have  got  one  of 
the  goats  here  now.  I  have  it  in  its  stable  here.  I  bought  it 
down  in  Wooster,  Ohio.  It  is  called  “the  Day  Mare  of  the 
Desert.”  (Laughter.)  Have  you  not  seen  it,  many  of  you? 

Voices — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Would  you  like  to  see  it  again?  I  will  have  it 
out  before  this  series  is  over.  (Applause  and  laughter.) 

I  will  show  you  “the  Day  Mare  of  the  Desert.” 

Eleventh : 

The  moral  and  spiritual  forces  of  the  Church,  necessary  for  the  build¬ 
ing  of  great  and  Christlike  characters,  seem  to  be  sidetracked.  In  many 
places  the  spirit  of  the  world  is  dominant,  instead  of  “the  spirit  which  is  of 
God.” 

Is  not  that  a  confirmation  of  my  assertion?  Yes  or  no? 

Voices — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Of  course  it  is.  What  is  the  use  of  talking  any 
more  about  that? 

Twelfth : 

With  some  of  our  people  the  services  of  God’s  House  receive  attention 
when  it  is  convenient.  Inclination  is  towards  society  and  its  enticements. 

THE  CHURCH  WHICH  IS  SO  CONSTITUTED  HAS  GONE  TO  THE 
WORLD,  THE  FLESH  AND  THE  DEVIL. 

Thirteenth : 

We  are  retreating  when  we  should  advance  at  double-quick  to  keep 
abreast  of  the  rushing  events  of  our  time. 

Friends,  so  far  I  have  examined  “The  Seal  of  the  Cove¬ 
nant,”  as  the  Bishops  entitled  this  Call  to  Humiliation  and 


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Prayer.  As  for  Charles  H.  Fowler’s  story  about  the  Marquis 
of  Argyll,  and  his  sealing  God’s  Covenant  with  his  blood,  it  is 
simply  an  insult  to  my  country,  Scotland,  and  to  its  heroic 
martyrs  to  link  them  to  the  Masonic  Goat  of  which  Mr.  Fowler 
is  the  Grand  Chaplain. 

He  dragged  in  the  story;  but  it  has  no  fitness  in  being 
used  for  his  rhetorical  purposes.  Before  I  am  through  with 
these  discourses  I  will  declare  to  you  God’s  Covenant  and  show 
you  its  Seals. 

But  the  document  we  have  been  examining  which  has  this 
misleading  title,  opens  by  the  confession  of  terrific  loss,  that 
lost  ground  is  paved  with  their  dead,  and  it  closes  with  the 
declaration  that  they  are  retreating. 

By  what  possible  process,  therefore,  has  this  General  Con¬ 
ference  the  effrontery  to  stand  before  this  city  and  land  and 
claim  to  have  any  existence  at  all  as  representing  a  Christian 
Church,  as  an  organization  which  God  can  bless? 

“Dr.  Dowie,”  says  somebody,  “do  you  deny  the  existence 
of  Christianity  in  the  Methodist  Church?” 

I  DO  NOT  DENY  THE  EXISTENCE  OF  CHRISTIANITY- IN  THE 

METHODIST  CHURCH. 

God  forbid. 

“Do  you  deny  the  existence,”  some  one  might  ask  me,  “of 
Christianity  in  the  Roman  Catholic  Church?” 

God  forbid. 

The  hope,  the  faith,  the  love  which  the  Gospel  engenders, 
flourishes  in  the  hearts  of  millions  who  know  nothing  of  the 
fact  that  they  have  been  sold  out,  as  an  organization,  to  the 
Devil. 

There  is  no  Church  which  you  can  name,  which  knows  any¬ 
thing  about  Christ,  which  is  wholly  devoid  of  Christianity. 

God  forbid  that  I  should  make  so  foolish  a  charge. 

I  remember  one  day  in  Zion  Tabernacle  No.  I,  there  was  a 
multitude  pressing  forward  for  healing,  and  a  woman’s  voice 
rose  and  fell  outside  my  door  in  weeping  and  in  pain. 

“Oh  Lord,  how  long?”  she  cried;  “how  long?”  I  opened 
the  door.  It  was  one  who  was  wearied  and  spent  outright,  for 
the  deadly  disease  of  cancer  had  seized  upon  her.  A  cancer  as 
large  as  my  hands  could  cover  was  in  her  right  breast. 

My  wife  was  there;  she  who  has  labored  with  me  so  often 
until  long  past  the  midnight  hour  with  the  sick  and  sorrowing. 
I  looked  at  this  suffering,  weeping  woman,  and  somebody  said, 
“She  is  a  Roman  Catholic,  Doctor.” 

I  said,  “Mary!  Mary!  Did  you  believe  what  I  said  today?” 

“Yes,  Doctor.” 

“Are  you  willing  to  come  to  God  through  Jesus  only, 
Mary?” 


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“I  have  come,  Doctor.  I  came  as  you  bade  us  to  do,  and  I 
believe  that  God  has  taken  my  sins  away.  If  you  will  put  your 
hand  there,  He  will  kill  the  cancer.” 

Did  I  wait  to  ask  whether  she  had  been  baptized  in  Zion? 

Did  I  wait  to  ask  whether  a  committee  had  sat  upon  her? 

God  have  mercy  upon  the  people  who  are  sat  upon  by 
church  commitees.  We  have  no  committees  in  Zion. 

Did  I  wait  to  ask  her  a  great  many  questions? 

I  did  not,  but  I  said,  “  Mary,  let  us  pray.” 

When  we  had  prayed,  and  I  laid  hands  upon  that  can¬ 
cer,  she  turned  to  me  and  said,  “It  is  dead,  Doctor.  It  is 
dead.” 

I  do  not  know  whether  Mary  Casey  is  here  today.  Are 
you  here,  Mary? 

Mrs.  Casey — “Yes,  Doctor.” 

Dr.  Dowie — There  you  are.  How  many  years  ago  was 
that? 

Mrs.  Casey — “Six  years  in  April.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Mary,  where  is  the  cancer? 

Mrs.  Casey— “Gone.  God  took  it  away.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Mary,  you  were  in  the  Roman  Catholic  Church 
then,  but  you  gave  yourself  to  Christ,  did  you  not? 

Mrs.  Casey — -“Yes,  sir.” 

Dr.  Dowie — And  you  are  in  Zion  now? 

Mrs.  Casey— “Yes,  sir.” 

Dr.  Dowie — And  thousands  besides  you  who  have  come 
out  of  Rome.  Thank  God  for  that.  (Amen.) 

Oh,  do  not  go  away  and  say  that  John  Alexander  Dowie 
said  that  there  was  no  Christianity  outside  of  the  Christian 
Catholic  Church.  God  forbid. 

My  brothers,  Bishops  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
there  are  some  of  you  who  love  God  as  truly  and  as  loyally  as 
I  do,  and  your  hearts  are  breaking  over  the  condition  of  your 
Church,  for  some  of  you  have  told  me  so. 

THE  OLD  GARMENT  OF  METHODISM  CANNOT  BE  PATCHED. 

My  brothers,  get  out.  You  cannot  patch  that  old  garment. 
You  cannot  put  the  new  wine  into  the  old  goat-skin  of  Masonic- 
Methodism. 

The  goat-skin  will  burst,  and  the  wine  of  the  Gospel  will 
be  lost. 

Make  no  mistake.  My  fight  is  upon  the  organization. 
My  fight  is  not  upon  the  loyal  and  brave  and  true  men  who 
still  remain  within  its  pale,  hoping  yet  to  reform  the  utterly 
devilish  Masonic  compound. 

I  pity  them — I  love  them,  and  I  tell  them  that  they  cannot 
revive  a  corpse.  You  cannot  revive  a  Church  which  has 
died. 


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This  Methodist  Church  by  its  own  confession  is  dead.  Then 
let  it  be  buried.  The  Church  of  Rome  is  dead;  dead,  thrice 
dead.  Yet  within  her  pale  there  are  women  and  men  who  love 
God  and  desire  to  do  right. 

Would  to  God  that  the  Church  of  Rome,  as  an  organiza¬ 
tion,  were  buried.  Yet  Christians  are  still  to  be  found  within 
its  wicked  walls. 

They  do  not  know  anything  about  Mariolatry.  They  do  not 
understand  the  accursed  claims  of  Papal  Infallibility.  They  do 
not  understand  the  Idolatry  of  the  Mass.  They  were  brought 
up  in  it,  and  they  have  been  seeking  God;  seeking  Him  with 
all  their  hearts;  seeking  Him  with  tears;  and  they  have  found 
Him,  and  He  is  leading  them  out  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church  into  the  Christian  Catholic  Church.  (Amen.) 

I  have  not  dealt,  more  than  by  an  allusion,  with  the  horrible 
cancer  which  is  eating  into  the  vitals  of  the  bishopry,  elder¬ 
ship,  and  laity  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  I  will  read 
to  you,  however,  one  word  before  I  close,  from  a  President  of 
the  United  States  whose  character  history  embalms  as  that 
of  one  of  the  purest  statesmen  and  noblest  citizens  of  this 
Republic. 

FREEMASONRY  DENOUNCED  BY  JOHN  QUINCY  ADAMS  AND 

WENDELL  PHILLIPS. 

He  says  these  words: 

I  am  prepared  to  complete  the  demonstration  before  God  and  man  that 
Masonic  oaths,  obligations  and  penalties  cannot  by  any  possibility  be  recon¬ 
ciled  to  the  laws  of  morality,  of  Christianity,  or  of  America. 

These  are  the  words  of  President  John  Quincy  Adams. 
(Applause.) 

I  will  add  to  them  one  more,  and  then  close.  It  is  the 
word  of  one  whose  name  and  fame  is  in  all  the  homes  of 
America : 

As  to  the  Freemasons,  our  most  influential  and  dangerous  Secret 
Society,  I  look  upon  their  claim  to  antiquity  as  childish  nonsense,  and  likely 
to  mislead  only  the  grossly  ignorant.  Their  claim  to  be  a  charitable  organ¬ 
ization  rests  on  the  flimsiest  and  most  insignificant  foundations;  while  every 
fair  man  sees  their  hypocrisy  in  pretending  to  be  a  Christian  body.  Every 
Freemason  swears  to  break  the  law,  commit  tfm  greatest  crimes,  and 
repudiate  Christianity.  History  shows  them  perverting  justice,  stopping  at 
no  crime  to  protect  and  conceal  their  mummeries;  controlling  politics  for 
selfish  and  personal  ends,  and  interfering,  with  great  danger,  in  national 
emergencies.  Every  good  citizen  should  make  war  on  all  Secret  Societies, 
and  give  himself  no  rest  until  they  are  forbidden  by  law  and  rooted  out  of 
existence. 

These  are  the  words  of  the  great  patriot,  who  fought  for 
liberty — Wendell  Phillips!  (Applause.) 

I  will  take  up  the  parable.  1  will  demonstrate  before  we 
are  through  the  truth  of  these  things. 

All  in  this  great  audience  today  who  desire  God  to  cleanse 
their  hearts,  who  desire  to  be  free  from  all  association  with 


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evil,  stand  and  tell  God  that.  (With  some  exceptions  the 
entire  audience  arose.) 

Do  you  desire  God  to  cleanse  your  hearts? 

Answer — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  you  desire  to  be  free  from  all  evil  associa¬ 
tions? 

Answer — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Then  pray. 

PRAYER  OF  CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus’  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 
Thy  Holy  Spirit,  that  I  may  trust  Thee  and  do  right;  that  I  may  repent  of 
all  my  sins  against  Thee,  and  against  my  fellowman;  that  1  may  restore 
that  which  is  not  mine  to  those  whom  I  have  defrauded.  Give  me  power 
to  confess  the  wrongs  I  have  spoken  or  done,  to  the  utmost  extent  of  my 
power,  to  my  fellowman,  no  matter  what  it  cost.  Give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit, 
that  I  may  be  clean,  free  from  all  association  with  the  infernal  works  of 
secretism  and  of  darkness,  and  may  come  out  of  all  churches  which  are 
apostate,  for  Jesus’  sake.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after 
Dr.  Dowie.) 

Did  you  mean  it? 

Answer — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Then  you  belong  to  Zion  and  to  God.  Sit  down 
and  bow  your  heads  in  silent  prayer  as  Zion  Choir  sings  the 
beautiful  Recessional  Song,  “The  Church’s  One  Foundation.” 

After  the  choir  had  passed  out,  singing  their  recessional  as 
they  went,  the  large  audience  was  dismissed  with  the  following 

BENEDICTION. 

And  now,  beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the 
very  God  of  Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole 
Spirit,  and  Soul,  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  com¬ 
ing  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will 
do  it.  The  Grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  Love  of  God  the  Eternal  Father, 
the  fellowship  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  the  Eternal  Comforter;  one  Eternal  God, 
abide  in  you,  bless  you,  keep  you  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  for¬ 
ever.  Amen. 


SECOND  DISCOURSE. 


Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Tuesday  Evening,  May  8,  1900. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  Number  100: 

Onward,  Christian  soldiers, 

Marching  as  to  war, 

With  the  cross  of  Jesus 
Going  on  before. 

Christ,  the  royal  Master, 

Leads  against  the  foe; 

Forward  into  battle, 

See,  His  banners  go. 

The  Scripture  was  then  read  by  the  General  Overseer  from 
the  sixth  chapter  of  the  Epistle  to  the  Romans,  closing  with 
this  prayer: 

May  God  bless  His  Word. 


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Prayer  was  then  offered  by  Overseer  Piper. 

The  General  Overseer  then  delivered  a  discourse  upon  the 

subject : 

THE  METHODIST  CHURCH  THE  PROPERTY  OF 

THE  MASONIC  ORDER 


INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept¬ 
able  in  Thy  sight,  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  to  the  tens  of  thou¬ 
sands  and  hundreds  of  thousands,  perhaps  millions,  to  whom  these  words 
shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  in  this  and  all  the  coming  time,  till 
Jesus  come,  for  His  sake.  Amen. 

The  words  which  I  read  to  you  tonight  are  those  which  I 
shall  place  in  front  of  my  remarks.  In  the  sixth  chapter  of  the 
Epistle  to  the  Romans  at  the  sixteenth  verse: 

TEXT. 

Know  ye  not,  that  to  whom  ye  present  yourselves  as  Servants  unto 
obedience,  his  Servants  ye  are  whom  ye  obey;  whether  of  Sin  unto  Death,  or 
of  Obedience  unto  Righteousness? 

When  a  man  talks  severely,  as  it  is  essential  that  I  shall 
talk,  he  must  talk  in  love;  he  must  talk  that  which  is  true,  for 
anything  else  but  simple,  naked  truth  must  fail. 

I  have  the  proposition  before  me  tonight,  in  my  own  lan¬ 
guage,  which  I  must  sustain  by  facts.  I  must  demonstrate  my 
proposition  by  facts  which  are  indubitable,  and  conclusions 
which  are  logical,  which,  therefore,  must  stand  every  test, 
and  which  cannot  be  shaken. 

Ye  shall  know  the  truth,  and  the  truth  shall  make  you  free. 

I  have  said  that  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  is  the 
property  of  the  Masonic  Order.  That  is  a  very  terrible  thing 
to  say. 

It  is  difficult  to  get  statistics  concerning  the  number  of  lead¬ 
ing  property-controlling  Methodists  who  are  members  of  the 
Masonic  Order. 

All  Masons  do  not  wear  the  emblem  upon  their  watch 
chains.  Many  do.  All  Masons  are  not  known  to  be  such. 
Those  who  are  in  the  highest  positions  are  oftentimes  unknown 
to  be  Masons. 

I  have  in  my  possession  and  have  read,  or  glanced  oyer, 
almost  everything  which  is  now  extant  in  type  on  this  question. 

My  studies  in  it  extend  over  a  good  many  years.  My 
knowledge  is  derived  not  merely  from  books,  but  from  men 
like  Deacon  Judd  and  others  in  this  Church  who  have  taken 
every  degree,  except  the  thirty-third,  in  straight  Scottish  Rite 
Masonry. 

I  have  had,  privately,  very  extraordinary  conversations  with 
a  gentleman  who  has  taken  no  less  than  ninety-four  degrees. 


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These  degrees  could  not  all  be  taken  in  this  country. 
They  comprise  the  most  secret  work  of  Higher  Masonry. 
Hence  I  have  been  in  touch  with,  and  am  informed  by,  one 
who  stands  within  a  very  few  steps  of  the  unknown  ruler  of 
Masonry.  Let  me  just  say  here  that 

THE  WORLD-RULERS  OF  THIS  DARKNESS  ARE  MASONS. 

Our  warfare,  or  “wrestling,”  as  the  apostle  puts  it,  “is  not 
against  flesh  and  blood,  but  against  the  principalities,  against 
the  powers,  against  the  world-rulers  of  this  darkness,  against 
the  spiritual  hosts  of  wickedness  in  the  upper  air.” 

Masons  in  many  cases  are  most  crassly  ignorant  of  Masonry. 
It  is  perfectly  ludicrous  to  talk  with  some  Masons  who  have 
only  taken  nine  or  ten  degrees  and  hear  the  stuff  they  talk 
about  Masonry.  Even  brethren  like  Deacon  Judd,  who  has 
taken  thirty-two  degrees,  are  very  little  acquainted  with  many 
of  these  degrees. 

One  man  passed  through  a  great  many  degrees,  that  he 
might  have  a  very  high  position.  He  was  a  very  prominent 
man.  They  hurried  him  through  them  in  three  days  and  nights. 
He  paid  several  thousand  dollars,  and  bought  everything  in 
sight,  but  he  said  to  me,  after  he  had  renounced  Masonry, 
“You  know  more  about  Masonry  than  I  do.” 

Masons  will  tell  you  that  an  outsider  cannot  know  what  an 
insider  can.  That  is  not  true.  Masons  within  the  lodges  do 
not  know,  even  when  they  have  gone  through  the  thirty-second 
degree,  what  I  know. 

If  it  were  known  that  I  was  the  possessor  of  certain  things 
which  I  do  know  of  unwritten  work,  my  life  would  be  in  still 
greater  danger  than  it  is. 

Not  that  I  care  much  about  that,  but  I  would  not  get  to 
know  some  other  things  which  I  believe  I  shall  find  out. 

An  astronomer  who  is  observing  the  sky  and  suddenly  sees 
certain  movements  in  the  heavenly  bodies,  exclaims,  “There 
is  another  heavenly  body  which  affects  that  body,  and  I  cannot 
see  it.  I  must  get  a  stronger  telescope.”  When  the  stronger 
telescope  comes,  the  discovery  is  made.  My  deductions  are 
similar. 

Anyone  who  examines  this  matter  attentively,  thoroughly 
and  deeply  over  wide  continents,  as  I  have,  will  know  that 
American  Freemasons  are  a  set  of  babies.  They  do  not  know 
what  Freemasonry  really  is,  because  Freemasonry  has  its  center 
in  Europe,  and  its  strongest  power  in  Asia. 

Overseer  Mason  will  not  be  surprised  to  hear  that,  because 
he  knows  the  Chinese  Empire  is  honeycombed  with  Secret 
Societies.  This  Masonic  power  practically  controls  all  Asia. 

Masonry,  which  has  been  so  long  nominally  opposed  by 
Rome,  has,  I  firmly  believe,  its  Secret  Center  in  the  Roman 


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Catholic  Church,  possibly  in  the  General  of  the  Jesuit 
Order. 

THE  HOPE  OF  JESUITISM  IS  IN  FREEMASONRY. 

Perhaps  you  did  not  see  it,  but  when  Admiral  Dewey  and 
President  McKinley  came  together  in  Washington  on  the  day 
of  the  presentation  of  the  sword  which  was  given  to  the 
Admiral  by  the  Nation,  a  snap-shot  was  taken  at  a  critical 
moment,  and  I  have  the  picture. 

Who  is  standing  between  these  two?  Cardinal  Gibbons, 
of  Baltimore. 

I  am  studying  the  political  situation,  and  I  shall  have  some¬ 
thing  to  say  regarding  a  Methodist-Masonic  President  before 
we  are  through,  unless  there  are  some  changes  at  the  White 
House  in  some  important  matters. 

Let  Zion  reserve  all  expression  of  promises  as  to  where 
they  will  place  their  votes  next  November.  Zion  is  theocratic, 
and  our  votes  will  be  given  where  they  will  do  the  most  good 
in  extending  the  Kingdom  of  God. 

The  Christia?i  Cynosure  publishes  in  its  last  issue  a  symposium 
by  Mr.  J.  M.  Hitchcock,  in  which  Mr.  Hitchcock  endeavored 
to  obtain,  for  he  never  obtained  it,  from  the  Chicago  pastors 
and  those  in  the  immediate  vicinity,  interviews  as  to  which  of 
them  were  Freemasons,  and  their  real  opinions  of  Secretism. 

Hitchcock  (says  the  Cynosure  this  month)  interviewed  the  pastors 
as  the  reporter  for  the  Times- Herald  of  this  city. 

What  an  innocent  gentleman  Mr.  Hitchcock  was.  Why, 
had  he  not  seen  that  H.  H.  Kohlsaat  had  become  a  Freemason? 

The  Cy?iosnre  continues: 

Mr.  J.  M.  Hitchcock  interviewed  the  pastors  as  the  reporter  for  the 
Times-Herald  of  this  city,  but  such  is  the  power  of  the  Lodge  that  neither 
the  paper  for  whom  the  interviews  were  obtained  nor  any  other  daily  in 
this  city  dared  to  publish  them.  Mr.  Hitchcock  was  told  that  the  Secret 
Orders  would  consider  the  publication  of  these  interviews  an  attack  on  the 
Lodge. 

There  was  very  little  danger  from  anything  the  pastors  said 
on  the  subject.  Mr.  Hitchcock  never  came  to  me  for  what  I 
thought.  He  is  on  the  side  of  the  Ram's  Horn,  and  so  the 
opinion  of  the  minister  who  preaches  regularly  to  the  largest 
congregations  in  Chicago  was  not  sought. 

The  strongest  talk  of  these  ministers,  even  those  who  were 
opposed  to  Freemasonry,  was  like  eau  de  cologne. 

NEARLY  EVERY  METHODIST  MINISTER  IN  CHICAGO  IS  A 

FREEMASON. 

Nearly  every  Methodist  minister  whom  he  interviewed  in 
Chicago  was  a  Freemason. 

In  the  city  proper,  I  think  they  were  all  Freemasons. 
Those  who  were  not  Freemasons  were  pastors  of  unimportant 
charges  in  the  suburbs. 


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ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  A  EOS  TASK. 


It  might  serve  to  introduce  my  purpose  if  I  read  to  you 
some  words  of  the  prominent  Methodist  Masons  of  this  city, 
from  Mr.  Hitchcock’s  manifestly  imperfect  report  of  imperfect 
interviews. 

Rev.  Robert  McIntyre,  pastor  of  St.  James  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Church,  said : 

Secret  Orders  are  decidedly  helpful  to  the  best  interest  of  society.  I 
myself  belong  to  three  of  the  older  and  best  known  societies;  it  is  of  these 
alone  that  I  speak.  They  furnish  good  fellowship  and  tend  to  draw  out 
and  educate  the  social  nature  of  man.  They  have  a  professional  value. 
Many  an  orator  noted  at  the  bar,  the  pulpit  or  public  rostrum  got  his  start 
in  the  Lodge  room  discussing  the  charities  and  obligations  of  the  Order. 
•••••••••• 

They  are  the  handmaid  of  the  Church,  and  I  should  not  hesitate  to 
advise  young  men  to  join  them. 

Robert  McIntyre,  you  lied  when  you  said  that,  and  you 
know  you  lied,  if  you  are  a  Freemason.  You  know  that  the 
Masonic  Order,  so  far  from  being  a  handmaid  to  the  Chris¬ 
tian  Church,  is  an  Order  which  cuts  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ’s 
Name  out  of  every  passage  which  they  read  from  the  Bible 
where  it  actually  occurs. 

Some  other  of  the  gentlemen  connected  with  Masonry  were 
not  so  cautious.  Dr.  Hirst,  pastor  of  the  Centenary  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  Chicago,  was  asked  his  opinion  of  Secret 
Societies.  He  said: 

“The  question  is  too  general ;  be  more  specific  and  I  will  try  and  answer 
you.” 

“Well,  Doctor,  are  you  yourself  a  member  of  any  of  the  oath-bound 
Secret  Orders?” 

“  I  am,”  was  his  unhesitating  reply. 

“  Have  you  found  that  your  connection  with  Secret  associations  has 
been  helpful  to  you  in  the  ministry?” 

“  Decidedly  so.” 

A  BOGUS  CHURCH  ROLL  OF  MEMBERSHIP. 

Deacon  Harper,  were  you  not  a  member  of  the  Centenary 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church? 

Deacon  Harper — “I  was  connected  with  the  Epworth 
League.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  you  know  the  Church  roll? 

Deacon  Harper — “Yes,  sir.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Deacon,  how  many  dead  members  were  there 
on  that  roll? 

Deacon  Harper — “About  300,  as  near  as  I  can  remember.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Could  you  find  their  addresses? 

Deacon  Haper — “No;  the  addresses  were  cut  off.” 

Dr.  Dowie — How  long  has  that  Church  been  established? 

Mrs.  Holden — “I  think  it  was  1869,  Doctor.  I  came  out  of 
that  Church.  I  know  that  it  is  true  about  the  bogus  roll.” 

Dr.  Dowie— In  thirty-one  years  they  have  not  900  effective 
members. 


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Mrs.  Holden — “They  did  not  have  an  average  congregation 
of  over  300.” 

Dr.  Dowie — After  four  years’  existence  there  is  not  a  single 
communion  at  which  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  in  Chicago 
does  not  seat  2000  members. 

Dr.  Hirst,  when  you  said  that  Masonry  had  been  helpful, 
you  know  you  lied,  if  you  referred  to  the  ministry  of  the  Gos¬ 
pel,  in.  which  repentance  toward  God,  and  faith  in  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  are  the  first  two  essentials. 

It  might  be  helpful  to  you  as  an  individual  in  getting  posi¬ 
tions  and  pay,  but  in  winning  people  to  God,  you  had  to  deal 
with  a  Church  more  than  thirty  years  old  which  had  not  900 
effective  members.  The  entire  rate  of  progress  in  the  whole 
thirty  years  was  not  thirty  members  per  year. 

Zion  has  many  members  from  that  Church,  not  only  Mrs. 
Holden  and  Deacon  Harper,  but  others  who  came  out  of  it 
because  it  was  dead  and  full  of  corruption. 

I  find  out  from  this  that  Frank  DeWitt  Talmage  is  very 
favorable  to  Masonry.  (Laughter.)  Johnston  Meyers  says  the 
only  reason  why  he  is  not  a  Mason  is  that  he  cannot  scrape 
up  enough  money  to  buy  the  degrees.  (Laughter.)  All  the 
people  who  have  been  attacking  us  are  Masons,  or  in  sympathy 
with  them. 

One  man  says  that  in  one  little  place  where  he  was  pastor 
there  were  no  less  than  sixteen  different  societies.  At  Malta 
and  St.  Charles,  Illinois,  he  says  they  have  run  to  excess.  He 
does  not  antagonize  them,  because  he  thinks  he  can  get  on 
better  not  tr  do  so.  Masonry  silences  cowards  everywhere. 

The  sick  and  the  poor  and  the  maimed  and  the  halt  cannot 
have  the  benefit  of  these  Secret  Orders.  That  is  a  radical  dif¬ 
ference  between  these  Societies  and  the  Church. 

Rev.  J.  R.  Smith,  Pastor  Wheadon  M.  E.  Church,  Evanston, 
Illinois,  said: 

I  am  a  Secret  Society  man,  believe  in  them  and  belong  to  about  a  dozen 
or  more  of  them.  They  do  not  intend,  nor  do  they  interfere  with  the  work 
of  the  Church. 

That  statement  is  true  as  regards  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  where  work  is  controlled  by  Masons  and  for  Masons, 
not  by  God  or  for  God. 

As  near  as  I  can  get  at  it,  from  certain  records  which  I  possess 
and  other  means  of  information,  I  make  the  assertion  that 

SEVENTY-FIVE  PER  CENT  OF  THE  MEMBERS  OF  THE  QUADREN¬ 
NIAL  CONFERENCE  OF  THE  METHODIST  EPISCOPAL 
CHURCH  ARE  FREEMASONS. 

In  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  one  of  the  brethren  stated  that 
ninety  per  cent  of  the  members  of  the  Conference  there  sitting 
were  Freemasons.  I  have  been  told  that  my  estimate  is  too 
low;  that  there  are  numbers  of  Masons  in  that  Conference  whom 


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ZION  ’  5  CONFLICT  WITH  ME  THODIS  T  A  POST  A  S  Y. 


I  do  not  know  to  be  Freemasons,  because  my  authority  is  of  an 
earlier  date.  I  am  safe  in  saying  that  seventy-five  per  cent  are 
Masons. 

I  will  take  no  other  tonight  than  the  first  three  degrees, 
and  let  you  see  whose  servants  they  are. 

I  have  the  degrees.  There  is  no  question  about  that.  I 
have  submitted  them  to  Masons  well  acquainted  with  them.  I 
have  Macoy’s  Manual  of  Masonry  now  in  my  hand,  printed 
for  Masons  only.  It  may  interest  you  to  know  how  forty-eight 
of  these  degrees  were  preserved. 

When  Morgan  was  murdered,  Hon.  Thurlow  Weed,  ex- 
President  John  Ouincy  Adams  and  a  host  of  great  and  good 
men  threw  themselves  into  the  fight  against  Masonry  after  that 
horrible  crime.  Morgan’s  book,  which  Miller  nearly  lost  his 
life  for  printing,  containing  the  exposure  of  these  three  degrees, 
was  reprinted,  and  circulated  widely. 

Antimasonry  and  antislavery  went  together. 

After  the  murder  of  Morgan,  honest  Masons  throughout 
this  country  who  were  Christians  and  patriots  first,  and  Masons 
afterwards,  threw  off  Masonry,  and  from  1500  to  2000  lodges 
surrendered  their  charters  within  a  very  short  time.  May  God 
grant  that  a  similar  good  time  may  come  again! 


HOW  THE  SECRET  WORK  OF  FREEMASONRY  WAS  REDUCED  TO 

WRITING  FOR  THE  PUBLIC. 

John  Quincy  Adams  says  that  these  ex-Masons  got  together 
in  conferences,  public  and  private,  one  especially  at  Le  Roy, 
New  York.  It  was  felt  that  it  was  a  good  time  to  put  upon 
record  the  secret  work  of  the  orders.  A  number  had  come 
from  Europe,  who  were  well  up  in  other  degrees  known  there. 

Elder  Bernard  was  appointed  to  reduce  the  whole  thing  to 
writing.  He  has  given  us  their  most  important  degrees  in  his 
book  entitled  “Light  on  Masonry  and  Oddfellowship,” 
authenticated  by  the  men  who  not  only  were  in  the  Lodge,  but 
the  men  who  were  the  masters  and  “sublime  potentates,”  who 
initiated  the  candidates.  A  President  of  the  United  States, 
John  Quincy  Adams,  says:  “To  David  Bernard,  perhaps  more 
than  any  other  man,  the  world  is  indebted  for  the  Revelation 
of  the  Most  Execrable  Mysteries  of  Masonry.” 

The  Masons  do  not  need  to  keep  up  their  lying  any  more. 
We  have  their  secrets.  We  have  them  from  themselves.  John 
Quincy  Adams  was  no  liar.  Wendell  Phillips  was  no  liar. 
Thurlow  Weed  was  no  liar.  The  antimasons  of  that  time 
came  out  of  Masonry,  and  were  amongst  the  best  and  noblest 
men  America  has  ever  produced. 

I  will  read  to  you  these  three  degrees  to  show  you  to  whom 
a  man  belongs  when  he  becomes  a  Freemason.  That  is  my 
text. 


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I  dare  the  Methodists  to  dispute  that  seventy-five  per 
cent  of  the  members  of  the  Conference  in  session  are  Free¬ 
masons.  I  dare  them  to  call  the  roll  of  that  Conference 
tomorrow  morning,  to  discover  who  are  Freemasons. 

Will  Bishop  Mallelieu  deny  that  he  is  a  thirty-third  degree 
Mason?  Start  off  with  him.  Will  Bishop  Joyce  deny  it? 
Will  Bishop  Fowler  deny  it? 

I  defy  Dr.  Buckley  to  have  the  house  brought  together  by 
a  special  call,  and  every  man  compelled  to  answer:  Are  you 
a  Mason  or  not?  I  will  be  very  glad  to  withdraw  the  state¬ 
ment,  if  it  is  found  that  it  is  not  true:  that  seventy-five  per 
cent  of  them,  at  least,  are  Masons. 

Let  me  tell  you,  without  going  through  all  these  degrees, 
what  all  these  men  must  pass  through.  I  will  ask  Deacon 
Judd:  Can  a  man  become  a  fourth  degree  Mason  without 
taking  the  first  degree? 

Deacon  Judd — “No,  sir.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Can  he  take  a  second  without  becoming  a  first, 
or  a  third  without  becoming  a  second? 

Deacon  Judd — “No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Are  not  these  three  degrees  of  the  Blue  Lodge 
the  foundation  of  Masonry? 

Deacon  Judd — “They  are  the  foundation.” 

THE  HEATHEN  CEREMONIES  OF  THE  FIRST  DEGREE  OF  FREE¬ 
MASONRY. 

Dr.  Dowie — I  will  read  you  the  foundation.  I  am  reading 
you  from  that  portion  of  the  first  degree  or  Entered  Apprentice 
and  ceremonies  of  the  initiation: 

W.  M.— Brother  Stewards,  you  will  repair  to  the  preparation  room, 
where  you  will  find  a  candidate  in  waiting,  whom  you  will  duly  prepare  for 
the  first  degree  of  Masonry.  (Before  the  Stewards  leave  the  Lodge  Room, 
they  step  to  the  altar — ) 

Now  mark,  it  is  an  altar.  It  is  an  altar  to  whom? 

Is  it  of  Jesus  Christ?  Will  one  of  them  dare  to  say  so? 
His  Name  dare  not  be  mentioned.  It  is  an  altar  to  Baal,  the  sun- 
god,  where  to  deceive,  and  to  destroy,  they  have  placed  a  Bible. 

(Before  the  Stewards  leave  the  Lodge  Room,  they  step  to  the  altar  and 
make  the  proper  sign.  Leaving  the  altar  on  their  right,  they  proceed  to 
the  preparation  room.) 

After  the  candidate  has  responded  to  the  usual  questions,  and  has  been 
properly  prepared  for  initiation  by  the  Stewards,  he  is  conducted  to  the 
door  and  requested  to  give  three  distinct  knocks. 

Now  how  is  he  prepared?  He  is  “divested  of  all  his  ap¬ 
parel  (shirt  excepted).”  A  pair  of  drawers  is  put  on  him, 
which  are  kept  on  with  difficulty.  Sometimes  they  fall  off  him. 
The  left  leg  of  the  drawers  is  rolled  up  above  the  knee.  He 
has  on  an  old  undervest,  one  slipper  and  one  stocking;  a  hood¬ 
wink  over  his  eyes  and  a  rope  called  a  cable-tow  around  his 
neck. 


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ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


S.  D.  to  W.  M.  (rising  and  making  signs) — There  is  an  alarm  at  the 
door  of  the  preparation  room. 

W.  M. — Attend  to  the  alarm. 

The  Senior  Deacon,  leaving  the  altar  on  his  right,  goes  to  the  door,  and 
answers  the  alarm  by  three  similar  knocks.  The  door  is  then  partially 
opened. 

S.  D. — Who  comes  here? 

Suppose  it  was  the  Rev.  Dr.  Joyce,  Rev.  Dr.  Mallelieu,  Rev. 
Dr.  Fowler,  or  the  Rev.  Dr.  McIntyre. 


Steward — A  poor,  blind  candidate,  who  is  desirous  of  being  brought 
from  darkness  to  light,  and  receiving  a  part  of  the  rights,  lights  and  bene¬ 
fits  of  this  Worshipful  Lodge  erected  to  God  and  dedicated  to  the  Holy 
Sprits  John,  as  many  a  brother  and  fellow  has  done  before  him. 

S.  D.  to  Candidate — Is  it  of  your  own  free  will  and  accord? 

Candidate — It  is. 

S.  D.  to  Stewards— Is  he  duly  and  truly  prepared? 

Steward — He  is. 

S.  D. — Is  he  worthy  and  well  qualified? 

Steward — He  is. 

S.  D. —  By  what  further  right  or  benefit  does  he  expect  to  gain  admission? 

Steward — By  being  a  man,  free  born,  of  lawful  age  and  well  recom¬ 
mended. 

S.  D. — Let  him  wait  with  patience  until  the  Worshipful  Master  is 
informed  of  his  request,  and  his  answer  returned. 

The  Senior  Deacon  closes  the  door,  goes  to  the  altar,  salutes  the  Master, 
and  gives  three  distinct  raps  on  the  floor  with  his  rod. 

W.  M. — Who  comes  there? 

S.  D. — A  poor,  blind  candidate,  who  is  desirous  of  being  brought  from 
darkness  to  light,  and  receiving  a  part  of  the  rights,  lights  and  benefits  of 
this  Worshipful  Lodge  erected  to  God  and  dedicated  to  the  Holy  Saints 
John,  as  many  a  brother  and  fellow  has  done  before  him. 

W.  M. — Is  it  of  his  own  free  will  and  accord? 

S.  D.— It  is. 

W.  M. — Is  he  duly  and  truly  prepared? 

S.  D. — He  is. 

W.  M. — Is  he  worthy  and  well  qualified? 

S.  D. — He  is. 

W.  M. — By  what  further  right  or  benefit  does  he  expect  to  gain  admis¬ 
sion? 

S.  D. — By  being  a  man,  free  born,  of  lawful  age  and  well  recommended. 

W.  M. — Since  he  comes  endowed  with  all  these  essential  qualifications, 
it  is  my  will  and  pleasure  that  he  enter  this  Lodge  of  Entered  Apprentices, 
and  that  you  receive  him  in  due  and  ancient  form. 

The  Senior  Deacon  repairs  to  the  door,  opens  it  wide  and  says: 

S.  D.  to  Stewards — It  is  the  will  and  pleasure  of  the  Worshipful  Master 
that  the  poor,  blind  candidate  enter  this  Lodge  of  Entered  Apprentices. 

The  two  Stewards  conduct  the  candidate  into  the  Lodge,  close  the  door 
and  take  their  seats. 

The  Senior  Deacon  places  his  left  hand  on  the  right  shoulder  of  candi¬ 
date,  and  says: 

S.  D.  to  Candidate— My  friend,  it  is  the  will  and  pleasure  of  the 
Worshipful  Master  that  I  receive  you  into  this  Lodge  of  Entered  Appren¬ 
tices  in  due  and  ancient  form.  I  place  this  sharp  instrument  (jewel  of 
office)  at  your  naked  left  breast.  It  is  to  show  that  as  this  is  an  instrument 
of  torture  to  the  flesh,  so  shall  the  remembrance  thereof  be  to  your  con¬ 
science,  should  you  ever  presume  to  reveal  any  of  the  secrets  of  Masonry 
unlawfully. 

The  Senior  Deacon  now  takes  the  candidate  by  the  left  arm  and  the 
Worshipful  Master  says; 


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\V.  M.  to  Candidate— My  friend,  no  man  should  ever  enter  upon  any 
great  and  important  undertaking  without  first  invoking  the  blessing  of 
Deity.  You  will  be  conducted  to  the  center  of  the  Lodge,  and  caused  to 
kneel  and  attend  prayer. 

The  Master  calls  up  the  Lodge  by  three  raps,  himself  rising  last, 
uncovers  his  head  and  repeats  the  following  prayer  in  the  East:  Vouch¬ 
safe  Thine  aid,  Almighty  F ather  of  the  Universe,  to  this  our  present  conven¬ 
tion;  and  grant  that  this  candidate  for  Masonry  may  dedicate  and  devote 
his  life  to  Thy  service,  and  become  a  true  and  faithful  brother  among  us! 
Endue  him  with  a  competency  of  Thy  Divine  wisdom,  that,  by  the  secrets 
of  our  art,  he  may  be  better  enabled  to  display  the  beauties  of  Brotherly 
Love,  Relief  and  Truth,  to  the  honor  of  Thy  Holy  Name.  Amen.  So  mote 
it  be. 

GOD  THE  FATHER,  GOD  THE  SON  AND  GOD  THE  HOLY  SPIRIT 

LEFT  OUT  OF  FREEMASONRY. 

Is  God  the  Father  there? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  God  the  Son  there? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — I  cannot  find  them. 

After  the  prayer,  the  Worshipful  Master  goes  to  the  candidate,  places 
his  right  hand  upon  his  head,  and  says: 

W.  M.  to  Candidate — In  whom  do  you  put  your  trust? 

Candidate — In  God. 

A  Mohammedan  would  say  that,  would  he  not? 

Mr.  Rice— “I  know  of  absolute  infidels  saying  that.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Conductor  Rice  used  to  sing  for  them  in  the 
Lodge  when  he  was  a  Mason. 

W.  M.— Your  trust  being  in  God,  your  faith  is  well  founded,  arise ! 
(takes  him  by  the  right  arm  and  assists  him  to  rise)  follow  your  guide,  and 
fear  no  danger. 

The  Worshipful  Master  returns  to  the  East,  seats  himself  and  the  Lodge 
by  one  rap. 

The  Senior  Deacon  now  takes  the  candidate’s  left  hand  in  his  own  right 
hand,  using  the  appropriate  grip,  and  leads  him  with  slow  and  measured 
steps  in  a  direct  line  near  the  northeast  corner  of  the  Lodge;  thence  mak¬ 
ing  a  right  angle  to  the  southeast  corner;  thence  to  the  southwest  corner; 
thence  to  the  northwest  corner,  and  so  regularly  about  the  Lodge;  finally, 
in  front  of  the  Junior  Warden’s  station  in  the  South  and  one  pace  distant, 
when  he  halts  and  faces  the  Junior  Warden.  As  they  pass  the  Junior  War¬ 
den’s  station  the  first  time,  that  officer  gives  one  rap.  Instantly  the  Wor¬ 
shipful  Master  begins  to  read  from  the  133d  Psalm  as  follows:  “Behold, 
how  good  and  how  pleasant  it  is  for  brethren  to  dwell  together  in  unity! 
It  is  like  the  precious  ointment  on  the  head,  that  ran  down  upon  the 
beard,  even  Aarons  beard,  that  went  down  to  the  skirts  of  his  garments; 
as  the  dew  of  Hermon,  and  as  the  dew  that  descended  upon  the  moun¬ 
tains  of  Zion;  for  there  the  Lord  commanded  the  blessing,  even  life  for 
evermore.”  The  reading  is  timed  so  accurately  that  the  Psalm  is  com¬ 
pleted  just  as  the  candidate  and  his  conductor  finish  the  circuit  of  the 
Lodge,  and  arrive  at  the  Junior  Warden’s  station  in  the  South.  As  they 
pass  the  Senior  Warden’s  station  in  the  West,  that  officer  gives  one  rap, 
and  the  Worshipful  Master  signifies  the  passage  of  his  station  by  one 
rap. 

Having  halted,  as  described,  before  the  Junior  Warden,  the  Senior 
Deacon  gives  three  raps  on  the  floor  with  his  rod. 

J.  W.  to  S.  D. — Who  comes  here? 


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S.  D. — A  poor,  blind  candidate  who  is  desirous  of  being  brought  from 
darkness  to  light,  and  receiving  a  part  in  the  rights,  lights  and  benefits  of 
this  Worshipful  Lodge  erected  to  God,  and  dedicated  to  the  Holy  Saints 
John,  as  many  a  brother  and  fellow  has  done  before  him. 

J.  W.  to  Candidate — Is  it  of  your  own  free  will  and  accord? 

Candidate — It  is. 

J.  W.  to  S.  D.— Is  he  duly  and  truly  prepared? 

S.  D  —  He  is. 

J.  W.— Is  he  worthy  and  well  qualified? 

S.  D. — He  is. 

J.  W. — By  what  further  right  or  benefit  does  he  expect  to  gain  admis¬ 
sion? 

S.  D. — By  being  a  man,  free  born,  of  lawful  age  and  well  recom¬ 
mended. 

J.  W.  to  S.  D.— Conduct  the  candidate  to  the  Senior  Warden  in  the 
West  for  further  examination. 

The  Senior  Deacon  now  conducts  the  candidate  in  front  of  the  Senior 
Warden’s  station  in  the  West,  halts  one  pace  distant,  faces  that  officer,  and 
gives  three  raps  on  the  floor  with  his  rod. 

The  same  questions  are  asked  and  like  answers  returned  as  at  the 
Junior  Warden’s  station. 

S.  W.  to  S.  D. — Conduct  the  candidate  to  the  Worshipful  Master  in  the 
East  for  final  examination. 

The  Senior  Deacon  conducts  the  candidate  to  the  Worshipful  Master’s 
station  in  the  East,  where  the  three  knocks  are  given,  the  same  questions 
asked  and  like  answers  returned,  as  before. 

W.  M.  to  Candidate— You  will  be  reconducted  to  the  Senior  Warden 
in  the  West,  who  will  teach  you  to  approach  towards  the  East,  advancing 
by  one  upright,  regular  step,  your  feet  forming  the  right  angle  of  an  oblong 
square,  your  body  erect,  to  the  Worshipful  Master  in  the  East. 

The  Senior  Deacon  obeys  the  order,  taking  care  to  leave  the  altar  on 
the  right. 

S.  D.  to  S.  W. — It  is  the  will  and  pleasure  of  the  Worshipful  Master  in 
the  East  that  this  candidate  be  taught  to  approach  to  the  East,  advancing 
by  one  upright,  regular  step,  his  feet  forming  the  right  angle  of  an  oblong 
square,  his  body  erect,  to  the  Worshipful  Master  in  the  East. 

S.  W.  to  S.  D. — You  will  see  that  the  Worshipful  Master’s  orders  are 
obeyed. 

The  Senior  Deacon  now  causes  the  candidate  to  face  to  the  East,  and 
instructs  him  how  to  take  the  proper  step  as  follows: 

S.  D.  to  Candidate — You  will  face  to  the  East.  Step  off  with  your  left 
foot,  bring  the  heel  of  the  right  foot  to  the  hollow  of  the  left  foot,  and  form 
the  right  angle  of  an  oblong  square.  Stand  erect! 

S.  D.  to  W.  M. — Your  orders  have  been  obeyed,  Worshipful  Master. 

While  the  candidate  is  in  this  position,  the  Worshipful  Master  (who 
does  not  leave  his  seat)  addresses  him  as  follows: 

W.  M. — My  friend,  for  the  first  time  in  your  life  you  have  advanced  to 
the  altar  of  Masonry.  You  stand  before  us  a  candidate  seeking  admission 
into  our  order.  But,  before  going  further,  be  warned  of  the  solemnity  and 
importance  of  the  step  you  are  about  to  take;  and,  if  unwilling  to  proceed, 
withdraw  while  there  is  yet  time. 

The  design  of  the  Masonic  Institution  is  to  make  its  votaries  wiser, 
better,  and  consequently  happier.  We  receive  none  knowingly  into  our 
ranks  who  are  not  moral  and  upright  before  God. 

That  is  a  lie  and  they  know  it.  I  have  in  my  possession 
the  statement  of  a  man  who  was  received  into  a  lodge,  and 
they  knew  that  he  was  not  only  a  saloonkeeper,  but  that  he 
kept  a  bad  resort.  Judge  Whitney,  of  Belvidere,  Illinois,  has 
placed  the  fact  on  record  that  the  Lodge  of  which  he  was 


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Worshipful  Master  in  that  place  had  drunkards,  gamblers, 
whoremasters,  and  even  aiders  and  abettors  of  murderers  in  its 
membership.  He  goes  on  to  say: 

Yet  I  am  free  to  inform  you  that  our  obligation  contains  nothing  which 
can  conflict  with  your  duty  to  God,  your  country,  your  neighbor  or  yourself. 

That  is  a  lie.  Before  a  man  takes  an  oath  he  is  told  a  lie 
by  the  Worshipful  Master.  Does  it  not  conflict  with  your  duty 
to  your  God  for  you  to  go  anywhere  and  offer  any  worship  in 
which  the  Name  of  Jesus  Christ  is  left  out? 

Audience — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  not  the  command  to  do  all  in  the  Name  of 
the  Lord  Jesus? 

Audience — “Yes.”  * 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  it  not  your  duty  to  your  country  to  see  that 
you  do  not  enter  into  association  with  criminals  and  take  vows 
which  will  make  it  easy  for  them  to  escape  justice? 

Audience — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie-— Is  it  your  duty  to  your  God  that  you  shall  not 
take  oaths  which  will  make  you  submit  yourselves  to  being 
murdered  for  causes  which  the  law  does  not  recognize? 

Audience — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — I  will  continue  the  reading — 

With  this  pledge  on  my  part,  as  the  Master  of  the  Lodge,  I  ask  you, 
are  you  willing  to  take  such  an  obligation,  as  all  Masons  have  done  before 
you;  or  do  you  prefer  to  retire,  as  you  have  a  perfect  right  to  do,  and  pro¬ 
ceed  no  further? 

If  the  candidate  consents  to  take  the  obligation,  the  Master  orders  as 
follows: 

W.  M.  to  S.  D—  Place  the  candidate  in  due  form  to  be  made  a  Mason. 

S.  D.  to  Candidate — Advance!  kneel  on  your  naked  left  knee,  place 
your  right  knee  so  as  to  form  a  square,  your  body  erect,  your  naked  left 
hand  supporting  the  Holy  Bible,  square  and  compasses;  your  naked  right 
hand  resting  thereon.  (The  Senior  Deacon  assists  candidate  to  do  this.) 

S.  D.  to  W.  M. — The  candidate  is  in  due  form,  Worshipful  Master. 

The  Worshipful  Master  calls  up  the  Lodge  by  three  raps;  he  rises  last, 
uncovers  his  head,  goes  to  and  stands  erect  before  the  altar,  and  places  his 
right  hand  upon  the  Bible.  The  Senior  Deacon  takes  a  position  behind  the 
candidate. 

W.  M.  to  Candidate — You  will  repeat  your  name,  and  say  after  me: 

I>  Charles  H.  Fowler,  of  my  own  free  will  and  accord,  in  the  presence 
of  Almighty  God,  and  this  Worshipful  Lodge  erected  to  him  and  dedicated 
to  the  Holy  Saints  John— 

What  on  earth  has  that  to  do  with  the  Church  of  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ?  Is  not  the  Church  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  dedi¬ 
cated  to  God  the  Father,  God  the  Son,  and  God  the  Holy  Ghost? 

Audience — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Where  is  it  here? 

A  COVENANT  WITH  DEATH  AND  AN  AGREEMENT  WITH  HELL. 

Charles  H.  Fowler,  of  my  own  free  will  and  accord,  in  the  presence 
of  Almighty  God,  and  this  Worshipful  Lodge  erected  to  him  and  dedicated 
to  the  Holy  Saints  John,  do  hereby  and  hereon  (Master  presses  his  gavel  on 
candidate  s  knuckles)  most  solemnly  and  sincerely  promise  and  swear  that 
I  will  always  hail,  forever  conceal,  never  reveal  any  of  the  secret  arts,  parts 


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or  points  of  the  hidden  mysteries  of  Masonry  which  may  have  been  hereto¬ 
fore,  or  shall  be,  at  this  time,  or  at  any  future  period,  communicated  to  me 
as  such,  to  any  person  or  persons  whomsoever,  except  it  be  a  true  and  law¬ 
ful  brother  Mason,  or  within  the  body  of  a  just  and  lawfully  constituted 
Lodge  of  Masons;  nor  unto  him  or  them  until,  by  strict  trial,  due  examina¬ 
tion,  or  lawful  information,  I  shall  have  found  him,  or  them,  as  lawfully 
entitled  to  them  as  I  am  myself.  I  furthermore  promise  and  swear  that  I 
will  not  write,  print,  paint,  stamp,  stain,  cut,  carve,  hew,  mark,  or  engrave 
them  on  anything  movable  or  immovable  capable  of  receiving  the  least 
impression  of  a  sign,  word,  syllable,  letter  or  character,  whereby  they  may 
become  legible  or  intelligible  to  any  person  under  the  canopy  of  heaven, 
and  the  secrets  of  Masonry  be  thereby  unlawfully  obtained  by  my  unworthi- 
ness. 

All  this  I  most  solemnly  and  sincerely  promise  and  swear,  with  a  firm 
and  steadfast  resolution  to  keep  and  perform  the  same,  without  the  least 
equivocation,  mental  reservation  or  secret  evasion  whatsoever;  binding  my¬ 
self  under  no  less  penalty  than  that  of  having  my  throat  cut  from  ear  to  ear, 
my  tongue  torn  out  by  its  roots,  and  buried  in  the  sands  of  the  sea,  at  low- 
water  mark,  where  the  tide  ebbs  and  flows  twice  in  twenty-four  hours, 
should  I,  in  the  least,  knowingly  or  wittingly  violate  or  transgress  this  my 
Entered  Apprentice  obligation.  So  help  me  God,  and  keep  me  steadfast. 

Is  that  a  Covenant  with  Death  and  an  Agreement  with  Hell? 

Audience — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Has  any  man  any  right  to  ask  of  another  man 
such  a  covenant  and  such  an  oath? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  this  Christianity? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — That  is  the  beginning  of  Masonry,  the  Oath  of 
the  Entered  Apprentice.  Whose  servant  has  he  become? 

Audience — “The  Devil’s?” 

Dr.  Dowie — Whose  property  has  he  become? 

Audience — “The  Devil’s.” 

Dr.  Dowie — 

W.  M.  to  Candidate— In  token  of  your  sincerity  of  purpose  in  this 
solemn  engagement,  you  will  kiss  the  Holy  Bible,  now  open  before  you. 

That  Bible  says,  in  the  words  of  Jesus,  “In  secret  spake  I 
nothing.”  “He  that  doeth  the  truth  cometh  to  the  light,  that 
his  works  may  be  made  manifest,  that  they  have  been  wrought 
in  God.”  “  Every  one  that  doeth  ill  hateth  the  light,  and  cometh 
not  to  the  light,  lest  his  works  should  be  reproved.” 

He  kisses  the  Bible  which  says  that  the  unfruitful  works  of 
darkness  are  to  be  reproved. 

The  candidate  kisses  the  Bible. 

W.  M.  to  S.  D. — Brother  Senior  Deacon,  our  brother  being  now  bound 
to  us  by  a  covenant  which  cannot  be  broken — 

God  can  break  that  Covenant  with  Death  and  that  Agree¬ 
ment  with  Hell,  and  He  will  do  it  with  tens  of  thousands  and 
millions.  God  said : 

Your  Covenant  with  Death  shall  be  disannulled  and  your  Agreement 
with  Hell  shall  not  stand. 

That  is  God’s  Word.  They  made  covenants  with  death  and 
agreements  with  hell  exactly  like  these  in  Elijah’s  time,  but 


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God  broke  them  and  smashed  them,  and  God  is  going  to  smash 
these  covenants  again. 

He  will  take  Zion  to  do  it,  too. 

— you  will  release  him  from  his  cable-tow. 

The  order  is  obeyed. 

W.  M.  to  Candidate — My  brother,  for  by  that  sacred  appellation  I  now 
address  you,  in  your  present  blind  condition  what  do  you  most  desire? 

Candidate  (prompted  by  the  Senior  Deacon) — Light. 

W.  M.— Light  being  your  desire,  you  shall  receive  it.  (To  the  Lodge.) 
My  brethren,  assist  me  in  bringing  our  brother  to  light. 

The  brethren  all  (except  the  Wardens)  come  forward  and  form  them¬ 
selves  in  two  parallel  lines  from  East  to  West. 

W.  M. — “In  the  beginning  God  created  the  heavens  and  the  earth. 
And  the  earth  was  without  form  and  void ;  and  darkness  was  upon  the  face 
of  the  deep.  And  the  Spirit  of  God  moved  upon  the  face  of  the  waters. 
And  God  said,  Let  there  be  light,  and  there  was  light.”  In  solemn  commem¬ 
oration  of  that  sublime  event,  I,  in  like  manner,  Masonically  declare,  Let 
there  be  light! 

At  the  word  light,  all  present  strike  their  hands  together  once,  and 
stamp  with  their  right  feet.  The  Senior  Deacon  removes  the  hoodwink  at 
the  same  instant,  and  the  Worshipful  Master  declares:  And  there  is 
light! 

W.  M.  to  Candidate— Upon  being  brought  to  Masonic  light,  you  behold 
upon  the  altar  before  you  the  three  Great  Lights  of  Masonry— the  Holy 
Bible,  square  and  compasses,  by  the  light  of  the  three  Lesser  Lights,  of 
which  these  three  burning  tapers,  placed  in  a  triangular  position,  are  the 
representatives.  The  Holy  Bible  is  the  rule  and  guide  of  faith. 

That  is  a  lie.  They  say  that,  but  they  do  not  believe  it. 

The  faith  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  demands  that  you  shall 
walk  in  the  light.  They  will  not  walk  in  the  light.  They  go 
into  darkness. 

The  square,  to  square  our  actions,  and  the  compasses  to  circumscribe 
and  keep  us  within  due  bounds  with  all  mankind,  but  more  especially  with 
a  brother  Mason.  The  three  Lesser  Lights  are  the  sun,  moon  and  Master 
of  the  Lodge,  and  are  thus  explained:  As  the  sun  rules  the  day  and  the 
moon  governs  the  night,  so  ought  the  Worshipful  Master  to  endeavor  to 
rule  and  govern  his  Lodge  with  equal  regularity. 

The  Master  now  retires  to  the  East  and  advancing,  says: 

W.  M.  to  Candidate — You  now  discover  me  approaching  you  from  the 
East  under  the  due  guard  (makes  due  guard)  and  sign  (makes  sign)  of  an 
Entered  Apprentice.  In  token  of  my  brotherly  love  and  favor  I  present 
you  with  my  right  hand  (takes  candidate,  who  is  yet  kneeling  at  the  altar, 
by  the  right  hand),  and  with  it  the  grip  and  word  of  an  Entered  Apprentice. 
Arise  and  salute  the  Wardens  as  an  Entered  Apprentice. 

The  Master  retires  to  his  station,  seats  himself,  and  then  seats  the 
Lodge  by  one  rap. 

The  Senior  Deacon  conducts  the  candidate  to  the  Junior  Warden’s 
station  in  the  South,  leaving  the  altar  on  the  right,  when  the  candidate 
salutes  the  Junior  Warden  with  the  due  guard  and  sign  of  an  Entered 
Apprentice.  They  then  pass  on  to  the  Senior  Warden’s  station  and  salute 
the  Senior  Warden  in  the  same  manner.  Then  they  go  to  the  West  of  the 
altar  and  salute  the  Worshipful  Master. 

The  Master  now  takes  an  apron  in  his  hand,  and  calls  up  the  Lodge  by 
three  raps,  himself  rising  last,  and  goes  to  candidate. 

W.  M.  to  Candidate — My  brother,  I  now  present  you  with  the  lamb¬ 
skin  or  white  leather  apron.  It  is  an  emblem  of  innocence  and  the  badge 
of  a  Mason.  It  is  more  ancient  than  the  Golden  Fleece  or  Roman  Eagle, 
more  honorable  than  the  Star  and  Garter,  or  any  other  order  that  can  be 


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conferred  upon  you  at  this  time,  or  at  any  future  period,  by  kings,  princes, 
potentates,  or  any  other  person,  except  he  be  a  Mason.  I  hope  you  will 
wear  it  with  equal  pleasure  to  yourself  and  honor  to  the  fraternity.  Take 
it,  carry  it  to  the  Senior  Warden  in  the  West ;  he  will  teach  you  how  to  wear 
it’as  an  Entered  Apprentice. 

The  Master  returns  to  the  East  and  seats  the  Lodge  with  one  rap. 
The  Senior  Deacon  conducts  the  candidate  to  the  Senior  Warden  in  the 
West  and  says : 

S.  D  —  Brother  Senior  Warden,  it  is  the  will  and  pleasure  of  the  Wor¬ 
shipful  Master  in  the  East  that  our  newly  admitted  brother  be  taught  how 
to  wear  his  apron  as  an  Entered  Apprentice. 

After  he  has  gotten  through  all  this,  and  much  more,  they 
have  a  supper,  and  drink  until  all  is  blue. 

The  Entered  Apprentice  is  now  a  fully  equipped  bond- 
servant  to  Satan. 

THE  HORRIBLE,  UNCHRISTIAN  OATH  OF  THE  SECOND  DEGREE. 

In  the  second  degree,  that  of  Fellow  Craft,  I  will  simply 
deal  with  the  oath. 

There,  after  going  through  a  long  ceremony,  the  candidate 
says : 

All  this  I  most  solemnly  and  sincerely  promise  and  swear,  with  a  firm 
and  steadfast  resolution  to  keep  and  perform  the  same,  without  the  least 
equivocation,  mental  reservation  or  self-evasion  whatsoever;  binding  myself 
under  no  less  penalty  than  that  of  having  my  left  breast  torn  open,  my 
heart  plucked  from  thence,  and  given  to  the  beasts  of  the  field  and  the  birds 
of  the  air  as  a  prey,  should  I,  in  the  least,  knowingly  or  wittingly,  violate  or 
transgress  this  my'  Fellow  Craft  obligation.  So  help  me  God  and  keep  me 
steadfast. 

Then  in  the  last  degree,  that  of  Master  Mason: 

I,  Charles  H.  Fowler,  of  my  own  free  will  and  accord,  in  the  presence 
of  Almighty  God  and  this  worshipful  Lodge,  erected  to  him  and  dedicated 
to  the  Holy  Saints  John,  do  hereby  and  hereon  most  solemnly  and  sin¬ 
cerely  promise  and  swear  as  I  have  heretofore  done,  but  with  these 
additions: 

That  I  will  not  communicate  the  secrets  of  a  Master  Mason  to  a  Fellow 
Craft,  nor  those  of  a  Fellow  Craft  to  an  Entered  Apprentice,  nor  those  of  an 
Entered  Apprentice  to  the  rest  of  the  world,  neither  these  nor  any  of  them 
to  any  person  or  persons  whatsoever,  except  it  be  to  a  true  and  lawful 
brother  Mason,  or  within  the  body  of  a  just  and  lawfully  constituted  Lodge 
of  Masons,  nor  unto  him  or  them  until  by  strict  trial,  due  examination,  oj 
lawful  information,  I  shall  have  found  him  or  them  as  lawfully  entitled  to 
them  as  I  am  myself. 

I  furthermore  promise  and  swear  that  I  will  stand  to  and  abide  by  all 
the  laws,  rules  and  regulations  of  a  Master  Mason’s  Lodge,  so  far  as  the  same 
come  to  my  knowledge. 

I  furthermore  promise  and  swear  that  I  will  answer  and  obey  all  due 
signs  and  summonses  sent  me  from  a  Lodge  of  Master  Masons,  or 
handed  me  by  a  brother  of  this  degree,  if  within  the  length  of  my 
cable-tow. 

I  furthermore  promise  and  swear  that  I  will  help,  aid  and  assist  all 
poor,  distressed  brother  Master  Masons,  their  widows  and  orphans,  they 
applying  to  me  as  such,  and  I  deeming  them  worthy. 

I  furthermore  promise  and  swear  that  I  will  keep  the  secrets  of  a 
brother  Master  Mason,  when  communicated  to  me  as  such,  murder  and 
treason  excepted,  and  they  left  to  my  own  choice. 


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I  furthermore  promise  and  swear  that  I  will  not  be  present  at,  nor  give 
my  consent  to,  the  making  a  woman  a  Mason,  an  old  man  in  dotage,  a 
young  man  in  nonage,  an  atheist,  an  irreligious  libertine,  a  madman  or  a 
fool,  knowing  them  to  be  such. 

I  furthermore  promise  and  swear  that  I  will  not  visit  a  clandestine 
Lodge  of  Masons,  nor  converse  Masonically  with  a  clandestine  Mason,  or 
with  one  who  has  been  suspended  or  expelled,  while  under  that  sentence, 
knowing  them  to  be  such. 

I  furthermore  promise  and  swear  that  1  will  not  cheat,  wrong  or  defraud 
a  Lodge  of  Master  Masons,  or  a  brother  of  this  degree,  knowing  them  to 
be  such,  but  will  give  them  due  and  timely  notice,  that  they  may  ward  off 
all  approaching  danger. 

I  furthermore  promise  and  swear  that  I  will  not  violate  the  chastity  of 
a  Master  Mason’s  wife,  his  mother,  sister  or  daughter,  knowing  them  to  be 
such. 

I  furthermore  promise  and  swear  that  I  will  not  give  the  grand  Masonic 
word  in  any  other  manner  than  that  in  which  I  shall  receive  it, 
which  will  be  on  the  five  points  of  fellowship,  and  then  in  a  low 
breath. 

I  furthermore  promise  and  swear  that  I  will  not  give  the  grand  hail¬ 
ing  sign  of  distress,  except  it  be  in  case  of  the  most  imminent  danger,  or 
suffering  in  the  cause  of  innocence  and  virtue,  or  in  a  just  and  lawfully 
constituted  Lodge  of  Master  Masons,  or  in  a  Lodge  for  instruction;  and 
when  I  see  or  hear  it  given  by  a  worthy  brother  in  distress,  I  will  fly  to  the 
relief  of  him  who  gives  it,  if  there  be  a  greater  probability  of  saving  his  life 
than  losing  my  own. 

All  this  I  most  solemnly  and  sincerely  promise  and  swear,  with  a  firm 
and  steadfast  resolution  to  keep  and  perform  the  samej  without  the  least 
equivocation,  mental  reservation  or  self-evasion  whatever;  binding  myself 
under  no  less  penalty  than  that  of  having  my  body  severed  in  two,  my 
bowels  torn  from  thence  and  burned  to  ashes,  and  these  scattered  before 
the  four  winds  of  heaven,  that  no  more  remembrance  might  be  had  among 
men  or  Masons  of  so  vile  a  wretch  as  I  should  be,  should  I,  in  the  least, 
knowingly  or  wittingly  violate  or  transgress  this  my  Master  Mason’s  obliga¬ 
tion.  So  help  me  God  and  keep  me  steadfast. 

Many  of  these  vows  are  notoriously  broken;  but  I  desire 
to  call  attention  to  the  shameful  immorality  implied  in  the  fol¬ 
lowing  : 

I  furthermore  promise  and  swear  that  I  will  not  violate  the  chastity  of 
a  Master  Mason’s  wife,  his  mother,  sister  or  daughter,  knowing  them  to  be 
such. 

He  holds  himself  free,  therefore,  to  violate  other  women 
whom  he  does  not  know  to  be  such.  That  is  the  inference  as 
clear  as  anything. 

Here  is  his  last  vow,  and  if  it  is  not  a  Covenant  with  Death 
and  an  Agreement  with  Hell,  what  is  it? 

Binding  myself  under  no  less  penalty  than  that  of  having  my  body 
severed  in  two,  my  bowels  torn  from  thence  and  burned  to  ashes,  and  these 
scattered  before  the  four  winds  of  heaven,  that  no  more  remembrance  might 
be  had  among  men  or  Masons  of  so  vile  a  wretch  as  I  should  be,  should  I, 
in  the  least,  knowingly  or  wittingly,  violate  or  transgress  this,  my  Master 
Mason’s  obligation. 

I  will  ask  you  the  question,  and  I  have  settled  the  whole 
question  when  I  have  received  the  answer:  To  whom  has  a 
man  become  a  bondservant  when  he  has  taken  these  three 
degrees — to  God  our  Father,  to  Jesus  Christ  our  Saviour,  to  the 


40  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

Holy  Ghost  our  Comforter,  or  has  he  become  the  servant  of 
the  Devil? 

Audience— “  The  Devil.” 

THE  CASE  AGAINST  THE  METHODISTS  PROVEN. 


Dr.  Dowie — If  seventy-five  per  cent  of  the  men  in  the 
Methodist  Conference  have  taken  these  vows,  in  whose  interest 
are  they  controlling  the  property  of  that  Church? 

Audience — “The  Devil’s.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Then  my  case  is  proved. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  is  the  property  of  Masonry, 
the  property  of  the  Devil. 

The  Devil  has  it  so  arranged  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  that  the  Masonic  Order  controls  that  property,  which 
was  purchased  for  the  glory  of  God  our  Father,  and  for  the 
preaching  of  His  Everlasting  Gospel  in  Jesus  Christ  His  Son, 
in  the  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 

The  Conference  now  in  session  is  supreme,  according  to  the 
laws  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

Every  dollar  of  the  property,  every  penny  of  income  which 
ever  has  been  received,  or  which  will  be  in  the  four  years  to 
come  acquired,  is  at  this  moment  legally  the  property  of  that 
Conference. 

Every  stick  and  every  stone  of  all  the  property  of  the  Meth¬ 
odist  Episcopal  Church  North,  not  only  in  the  United  States 
of  America,  but  in  every  country  where  the  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Church  has  any  property — in  China,  in  Japan,  in  Africa, 
in  Asia,  in  Europe,  in  Australasia,  in  the  Islands  of  the  Sea — is 
controlled  by  this  Conference. 

Therefore,  if  seventy-five  per  cent  of  that  Conference 
belongs  to  the  Masons,  and  the  Masons  belong  to  the  Devil, 
then  the  property  of  the  Masonic-Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
is  the  property  of  the  Devil. 

That  is  what  it  hascome  to. 

The  true  Christians  in  that  Church  will  never  get  it  out  of 
their  hands. 

You  will  no  more  get  that  property  out  of  the  Devil’s  hands 
than  the  Roman  Catholics  will  ever  get  the  property  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  Church  out  of  the  Devil’s  hands. 

The  Roman  Catholic  Priests,  Bishops,  Archbishops,  Cardi¬ 
nals  and  Pope,  so  long  as  they  are  the  unconverted  men  that 
they  are,  will  continue  to  use  the  property  for  the  Devil. 
They  will  sing  their  Ave  Maries,  their  Paternosters,  and 
call  upon  the  Holy  Spirit,  while  they  know  that  they  are 
ungodly. 

The  leaders  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  will  con¬ 
tinue  to  pray  and  talk  and  preach,  but  they  belong  to  a 
Secret  Order  which  belongs  to  the  Devil. 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  4 1  ' 

The  people  had  better  get  out  of  that  Church  quickly,  or 
their  children  will  go  to  the  Devil,  too. 

Do  you  believe  that  is  true? 

Voices — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — I  want  to  see  how  many  in  this  room  believe 
that  I  have  spoken  the  truth,  and  made  a  logical  and  right 
deduction. 

Please  to  stand  and  show  yourselves.  (With  but  few 
exceptions  the  entire  audience  arose.) 

You  do  not  (addressing  those  sitting)?  I  am  deeply 
sorry  for  you.  I  have  told  the  truth.  May  God  have  mercy 
upon  you.  I  have  told  the  truth,  and  you  know  it.  You  are 
sinful  and  wicked  in  not  acknowledging  it.  I  warn  you  before 
God  that  you  will  share  the  doom  and  the  damnation  of  those 
who  have  stolen  the  property  of  God,  and  have  laid  it  upon 
the  altar  of  Baal. 

Let  us  consecrate  ourselves. 

PRAYER  OF  CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus’  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me  Thy 
Holy  Spirit.  Give  me  power  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Take 
me  away  from  all  evil  association  with  apostate  churches,  and  with  diabol¬ 
ical  lodges.  Help  me  to  fight  the  good  fight  of  faith  against  all  these  evil 
things.  Forgive  my  sin,  and  enable  me  to  do  right  in  future,  for  Jesus’ 
sake.  Amen.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

CLOSING  PRAYER. 

Father  in  heaven,  command  Thy  blessing  upon  this  assembly.  We 
pray  for  our  poor  deluded  brothers  and  sisters  who  are  so  wicked  as  to  deny 
the  Lord  who  bought  them.  Have  mercy  upon  them  for  Jesus’  sake.  Have 
mercy  upon  this  wicked  Conference,  the  great  majority  of  the  members  of 
which  are  controlled  by  antichristian  devils.  Oh,  our  God,  do^  Thou  take 
the  good  men  and  women  out  of  that  Church.  Let  it  be  that  Thy  people 
shall  escape  for  their  lives  and  do  it  quickly. 

Hear  us,  our  Father,  in  this  great  fight,  and  give  us  victory.  Get  to 
Thyself  the  victory.  Break  up  the  lodges  in  thousands  and  in  ten  of  thou¬ 
sands,  and  set  the  poor  prisoners  free.  Help  them  to  know  that  they  have  a 
right  to  break  their  Covenant  with  Death  and  Agreement  with  Hell.  May 
they  break  their  bonds  and  come  forth  for  Jesus’  sake. 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil,  and  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly,  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you, 
bless  you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever. 
Amen.  * 


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ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


zsm,  mb.  .°  u.  m.  "bkh  dw,".’h  i.  ZION  MAKING  INQUISITION  FOR  BLOOD.  ,  II.  lN0“'s'T'°'‘ roR IlLOOD 

Declare  among  the  people  His  doln^s^  ^  ^  The  Masonic  Murder  Of  Ellen  Slade,  He  lorgetletb  not  the  Car  op  the  AjMaiCTap. 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


43 


THIRD  DISCOURSE. 


THE  intense  interest  with  which  Chicago  and  the  world  are 
watching  the  Conflict  which  Zion  is  waging  with  Metho¬ 
dist  Apostasy  is  unabated.  In  spite  of  severe  storms  and 
blistering  heat,  the  crowds  have  continued  to  throng  Central 
Zion  Tabernacle  at  the  services  in  which  the  General  Overseer 
has  been  declaring  the  shameful  condition  of  this  great  body 
of  professing  Christians. 

Interest  in  and  attention  to  these  clear,  logical  discourses, 
founded  upon  indisputable  evidence,  has  produced  its  results, 
and  many,  heretofore  blinded  to  the  real  facts  concerning 
Methodism  and  its  connection  with  the  Baal-worshiping  abom¬ 
ination  of  Freemasonry,  are  coming  out  of  the  organization 

into  Zion.  * 

On  Thursday  evening,  May  ioth,the  General  Overseer  dealt 

largely  with  Judge  Whitney’s  exposure  of  Freemasonry  as  a 
protector  of  criminals.  An  audience  of  nearly  a  thousand 
persons  was  present. 

On  Lord’s  Day  afternoon,  May  13th,  the  man  of  God 
applied  the  dramatic  story  of  Elijah  on  Mount  Carmel  to  the 
present  situation  in  Chicago,  with  most  telling  effectt.  Although 
the  weather  was  almost  intolerably  warm,  there  were  over  2500 
persons  present,  and  many  came  to  the  doors  but  did  not  remain, 
because  of  the  crowded  condition  of  the  Tabernacle,  seats  being 
obtainable  only  in  the  upper  galleries.  a.  w.  n. 


Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Thursday  Evening,  May  io,  1900. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  Number  44. 

The  General  Overseer  then  read  from  the  Inspired  Word  of 
God  in  the  book  of  the  Prophet  Isaiah,  in  the  twenty-fourth 
and  twenty-eighth  chapters. 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by  Overseer  Mason,  after  which 
the  tithes  and  offerings  were  received 

The  General  Overseer  then  delivered  an  address  upon  the 

subject : 

FREEMASONRY:  A  HEATHEN  AND  AN  ANTI¬ 

CHRISTIAN  ABOMINATION. 


INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept¬ 
able  in  Thy  sight  and  be  profitable  unto  this  people  who  hear,  and  unto  all 
to  whom  these  words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  in  this  and  all  the 
coming  time,  till  Jesus  come,  for  His  sake.  Amen. 


44  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

My  subject  tonight  is:  “Freemasonry:  A  Heathen  and 
an  Antichristian  Abomination,”  and  I  take  for  my  text  what  I 
have  read : 

TEXT. 

Ye  have  said,  We  have  made  a  Covenant  with  Death,  and  with  Hell  are 
we  at  Agreement. 


And  your  Covenant  with  Death  shall  be  disannulled,  and  your  Agree¬ 
ment  with  Hell  shall  not  stand. 

For  seven  hours  today,  a  long  time  for  me  to  give  to  any  one 
thing,  I  have  been  diligently  reading,  studying,  digesting  and 
considering  what  I  could  present  to  you  of  this  vast  subject. 

A  SAD  STORY  OF  RUIN  THROUGH  MASONRY. 

It  will  now  be  twenty-five  years  since  I  stood  at  the  death¬ 
bed  of  a  man  who  had  been  Secretary  of  a  Grand  Lodge 
of  the  Masonic  Order  in  one  of  the  Provinces  of  Australia. 

When  he  became  a  Mason  he  was  a  prosperous  business 
man.  He  married  a  woman  of  beautiful,  majestic  character. 

When  I  knew  him,  he  had  gone  up  through  all  the  degrees 
of  Masonry  to  the  thirty-third,  and  he  had  gone  down  into  all 
the  degrees  of  devilry  that  a  man  could  enter. 

He  had  been  a  consistent  Christian,  superintendent  of  a 
Sunday  School,  and  local  preacher.  He  had  worked  up  a 
very  large  Bible  class.  He  was  an  abstainer.  He  had  been 
a  faithful  husband.  He  had  been  a  kind  father,  and  a  prosper¬ 
ous  young  man  at  the  head  of  a  considerable  carriage,  cart  and 
wagon  manufactory. 

When  I  saw  him  he  was  a  drunkard.  Indeed,  some  of  his 
Masonic  brethren  had  brought  to  him  flasks  of  whisky,  which 
he  secreted  about  his  bed.  I  took  one  from  the  pocket  of  his 
night-dress  when  he  lied  and  told  me  that  he  had  not  tasted 
whisky  for  weeks. 

I  had  long  prayed  for  him.  His  wife  was  then  a  member 
of  the  Church  of  which  I  was  pastor.  Her  children  had  been 
my  care  for  years.  She  was  worse  than  a  widow,  and  he  had 
come  home  to  her  to  die — a  wreck,  a  liar,  an  adulterer,  a  thief. 

I  said  to  him,  “You  will  go  out  into  the  darkness,  into  the 
outer  darkness.  There  will  be  weeping  and  wailing  and  gnash¬ 
ing  of  teeth  in  the  beyond  unless  you  put  things  right  now.” 

He  lied  when  he  talked.  “What  things?”  he  said. 

I  said,  “Well,  sir,  I  shall  begin  with  that  whisky  you  have.” 

He  said,  “I  have  not  had  any  whisky  for  weeks.” 

I  was  strong  and  he  was  weak,  and  for  a  moment  I  put  forth 
my  strength,  and  thrust  my  hand  unde‘r  him,  and  he  rose  up 
to  protect  his  whisky,  but  it  was  too  late.  I  had  the  flask  in 
my  hand. 

“You  liar!  Who  gave  you  that?” 

He  said,  “A  Mason.  Give  it  me  back.  It  is  mine.” 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  AFOSTASY.  45 

I  went  out  into  the  back  yard  and  smashed  it.  I  searched 
under  the  mattress  and  around  about  and  found  three  more. 

I  said,  “The  Church  of  which  I  am  pastor,  and  I  out  of  my 
own  pocket,  have  largely  kept  your  wife  and  family  for  some 
time,  you  scoundrel.  I  propose  that  she  shall  have  a  quiet 
time.  If  you  will  die  here,  and  if  your  miserable  carcass  is 
going  to  yield  up  its  dirty,  filthy  spirit  here,  and  you  are  going 
to  be  damned  hereafter,  you  shall  at  least  have  a  quiet  time. 
I  will  not  let  you  drink.” 

“Is  it  not  my  house?”  he  asked. 

“No,  sir;  it  is  not  your  house.  There  is  not  a  stick  in  it 
that  is  yours.  Your  house  was  sold  off  long  ago  when  you  sold 
out  to  the  Devil.” 

“You  are  hard,”  he  said. 

“Yes,”  I  said,  “  I  am  very  hard.  I  feel  like  putting  adamant 
around  these  worse  than  widowed  and  fatherless  children.  You 
are  a  disgrace  to  humanity.  You  are  worse  than'a  dog.  No 
brute  would  do  what  you  have  done.  Three  times  you  aban¬ 
doned  your  wife  just  when  she  became  a  mother;  left  her  on 
one  occasion,  stealing  every  penny  that  was  in  the  house,  with¬ 
out  a  bit  of  bread  or  a  cent  of  money.  I  am  hard,  and  unless 
you  will  repent  I  hope  you  will  die  in  twenty-four  hours  and  go 
to  hell,  where  you  belong.” 

He  looked  at  me  and  his  eyes  grew  large  with  surprise 
and  terror.  He  said,  “My  God,  am  I  before  the  judgment 
throne?” 

I  said,  “You  are.  You  are  before  the  Judge  now.  The  Judge 
is  at  the  door,  and  when  you  stand  before  the  Great  White 
Throne  you  will  he  damned.” 

I  will  never  forget  how  he  rose  up  in  his  bed  and  cried  out: 

“if  I  AM  DAMNED,  IT  IS  MASONRY  THAT  HAS  DAMNED  ME.” 

I  was  not  expecting  that.  In  those  days  I  knew  very 
little  about  Masonry.  I  always  counted  everything  in  the  way 
of  Secret  Societies  a  pack  of  tomfoole'ry,  anyhow,  and  despised 
Masonry  too  much  to  give  it  any  serious  attention. 

I  had  been  an  abstainer  all  my  life,  but  when  I  was  asked 
to  become  a  Good  Templar  I  said,  “No,  sir;  I  will  not  have 
any  watery  imitation  of  Freemasonry.  1  will  not  be  a  member 
of  any  Secret  Society.  I  do  not  need  to  do  it.  I  want  to  fight 
in  the  light.  I  want  to  fight  with  the  weapons  of  God  in  the 
light.  I  have  no  desire  to  fight  with  the  weapons  of  the  Devil 
and  of  darkness.  Christ  said  nothing  in  secret,  and  I  have 
nothing  to  say  in  secret.” 

When  I  had  gone,  that  man  turned  to  his  wife  and  said,  “Is 
that  a  man  or  an  avenging  spirit?  It  seemed  to  me  as  if  Mr. 
Dowie  filled  all  the  room  and  as  if  I  could  see  nothing  but  his 
eyes.  My  God,  how  will  it  be  when  I  stand  before  God  Him- 


46  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

self?”  With  that  he  burst  into  tears,  and  cried  to  his  wife  for 
the  first  time  in  many  years. 

He  said,  “Pray  for  me.  I  used  to  know  John  Alexander 
Dowie’s  God.  I  know  nothing  about  Him  now.  I  have  been 
with  Baal.  I  have  been  with  the  accursed  Mah-hah-bone.  I 
have  been  with  the  damning  passwords  from  Boaz  through  - 
Shibboleth  to  Tubal-Cain.” 

These  are  the  passwords  of  the  three  first  degrees  of  Masonry. 
You  are  now  just  as  wise  as  the  Masons.  (Laughter.) 

They  lie  and  say  it  is  not  so,  because  they  lie  all  the  time. 
Do  they  not,  Deacon  Judd? 

Deacon  Judd— “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — You  never  started  lying  to  your  wife  until  you 
became  a  Mason,  did  you? 

Deacon  Judd — “Never.” 

Dr.  Dowie — I  felt  that,  because  I  felt  that  my  heart  was 
breaking  for  that  man.  I  prayed  God  and  said,  “Was  I  a  little 
tooTard?”  I  prayed  a  little  that  night,  and  the  next  morning 
when  I  came  he  looked  at  me,  and  oh  there  was  such  a  change. 

He  put  out  his  poor  thin  hand  and  said,  “  Do  you  know  the 
Devil  has  gone  out  of  me?  The  desire  for  drink  is  gone;  I 
loathe  the  thought  of  it.  I  have  no  appetite  for  it.  I  asked 
wife  last  night  to  pray,  and,  bless  you,  I  have  slept.” 

He  told  me  how  he  had  dreamed  about  green  pastures  and 
the  still  waters,  and  the  Good  Shepherd,  and  he  said,  “  He 
looked  like  you.”  He  said,  “Will  you  help  me?” 

I  said,  “Yes,”  and  he  was  all  broken  up. 

MY  FIRST  GLIMPSE  INTO  THE  HEATHENISM  OF  SECRETISM. 

That  man  got  Salvation.  He  never  sought  for  Healing. 

He  said,  “Do  not  pray  for  my  Healing.  I  think  I  can  last  for 
a  few  weeks,  just  enough  to  show  that  I  have  been  restored  to 
God.  But  don’t  you  pray  for  my  healing.  I  do  not  want  to 
go  into  the  world  again.  I  want  to  pass  away.  But  I  am  going 
to  tell  you  all  about  Masonry.” 

Oh  how  that  dying  man  poured  his  heart  out!  I  heard  from 
him  a  great  many  things  that  I  do  not  see  in  these  works. 

Masonry  is  doubtless  very  different  in  different  countries. 

I  am  persuaded  that  there  are  many  additions  and  subtrac¬ 
tions  to  Masonry;  that  it  is  modified,  added  to,  all  kinds  of 
ridiculous  things  put  in,  some  of  them  just  to  create  fun  and 
interest  as  they  call  it,  and  others  of  a  most  serious  character 
connected  with  revolutions  and  movements  in  some  coun¬ 
tries  and  anti-religious  movements  in  other  countries. 

I  am  persuaded  that  Secretism  is  never  true  to  itself. 

It  cannot  be,  because  it  is  devilish,  and  no  devils  ever 
agree.  That  is  one  good  thing  about  devilry:  you  can  always 
count  that  the  devils  are  quarrelling.  If  you  want  to  win 


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a  battle,  it  is  a  good  thing  to  set  the  devils  fighting  each 
other. 

That  is  one  reason  why  Masonry  is  not  strong  in  this  coun¬ 
try.  The  Masonic  Republicans  and  the  Masonic  Democrats 
and  the  Masonic  Populists  are  all  scratching  each  other  the 
wrong  way.  (Laughter.)  They  do  not  agree.  There  is  no 
harmony  among  them. 

It  is  a  good  thing  that  it  is  so. 

I  am  beginning  to  find  out  the  weakness  of  the  enemy’s 
position. 

Although  the  Methodist  body  looks  so  strong  and  the 
Freemasons  look  so  strong,  I  have  been  studying  their  kopjes , 
and  I  believe  Zion  can  outflank  and  conquer  the  whole  of 
them  in  twenty  years.  (Applause.) 

I  told  you  what  the  Methodists  had  to  say  in  my  first  dis¬ 
course,  in  which  I  examined  their  document  entitled  “The  Seal 
of  the  5 Covenant.”  I  did  not  give  you  half  the  fun  I  might 
have  given,  especially  if  I  had  given  you  Bishop  Fowler  with 
nervous  hands  of  sacrifice  which  were  stretching  up  in  the  dark¬ 
ness  and  laying  hold  of  Mah-hah-bone  and  letting  the  world 
spin  around  beneath.  (Laughter.) 

Oh,  he  is  a  picturesque  and  a  burlesque  sinner!  (Laughter.) 

You  say  that  I  am  exaggerating.  I  am  not  exaggerating  a 
bit.  It  is  all  here. 

That  Mah-hah-bone  said  all  that;  said  that  was  what  they 
were  to  do. 

When  with  the  nervous  hands  of  sacrifice  we  reach  up  in  the  Darkness, 
take  hold  of  His  promises,  and  hang  there ,  letting  the  world  spin  round 
beneath  us  unheeded,  willing  to  die,  if  need  be,  for  the  triumph  of  His  cause, 
then  we  will  always  prevail. 

Nice  spectacle  that,  is  it  not? 

He  is  holding  on  to  the  goat’s  tail,  not  God’s  promises. 

One  of  the  lies  which  Methodist  ministers  in  Chicago  like 
Robert  McIntyre,  Charles  H.  Fowler,  Dr.  Hirst,  and  others,  are 
telling,  is  that  Masonry  is  not  antichristian ;  that  it  is  not 
heathen;  that  it  is  not  injurious  to  the  Church  of  God. 

During  the  last  week  of  this  Conflict  I  will  show  you  the 
initiation  ceremonies  of  the  Masonic  Lodge.  Twenty-five  of 
our  brethren,  members  of  this  Church,  who  have  come  out  of 
Masonry,  will  go  through  the  degree  work  in  your  pres¬ 
ence. 

You  say  it  is  wrong  for  them  thus  to  break  their  oaths? 

Would  you  like  to  know  what  I  think  of  it? 

Was  George  Washington  a  good  man? 

Voices — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie— Do  you  all  think  he  did  right  to  fight  for  the 
independence  of  his  country? 

Voices — “  Yes.” 


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Dr.  Dowie — He  broke  his  oath  in  doing  that.  Here  is  his 
oath.  George  Washington  took  this  oath  with  uplifted  sword: 

THE  OATH  WHICH  GEORGE  WASHINGTON  BROKE. 

I,  George  Washington,  do  take  Almighty  God  to  witness,  that 
I  will  be  faithful  and  bear  true  allegiance  to  our  most  Sovereign  Lord, 
King  George  the  Third,  and  him  will  defend  to  the  utmost  of  my  power, 
against  all  conspiracies  and  attempts  whatever,  that  shall  be  made  against 
his  person,  crown  and  dignity:  And  I  do  faithfully  pro?nise,\.o  maintain, 
support  and  defend  to  the  utmost  of  my  power,  the  succession  of  the  Throne, 
in  his  Majesty’s  family,  against  any  person,  cr  persons  whatsoever.  Thereby 
utterly  abjuring  any  allegiance  or  obedience  to  the  person  taking  upon  him¬ 
self  the  style  and  title  of  Prince  of  Wales,  in  the  lifetime  of  his  father,  and  who, 
since  his  death,  is  said  to  have  assumed  the  style  and  title  of  King  of  Great 
Britain  and  Ireland,  by  the  name  of  Charles  the  Third,  and  to  any  other 
person  claiming  or  pretending  a  right  to  the  crown  of  these  realms.  And 
I  do  swear ,  that  I  do  detest  and  reject  and  detest  as  unchristian  and 
impious,  to  believe  that  it  is  lawful  to  murder  or  destroy  any  person  or 
persons  whatsoever,  for  or  under  pretense  of  their  being  heretics,  and  also 
that  unchristian  and  impious  principle,  that  no  faith  is  to  be  kept  with 
heretics.  /  further  declare ,  that  it  is  no  article  of  my  faith;  and  I  do 
renounce,  reject  and  abjure  the  opinion  that  Princes  excommunicated  by 
the  Pope  and  Council,  or  by  any  authority  of  the  See  of  Rome,  or  by  any 
authority  whatsoever ,  may  be  deposed  or  murdered  by  their  subjects,  or  by 
any  person  whatsoever;  and  I  do  promise,  that  I  will  not  hold,  maintain,  or 
abet  any  such  opinion,  or  any  other  opinion,  contrary  to  what  is  expressed 
in  this  declaration.  And  I  do  solemnly ,  in  the  presence  of  God,  and  His 
only  Son  Jesus  Christ,  our  Redeemer,  profess,  testify,  and  declare,  that  I 
do  make  this  declaration,  and  every  part  thereof,  in  the  plain  and  ordinary 
sense  of  the  words  of  this  oath,  without  any  evasion,  equivocation,  or 
mental  reservation  whatsoever,  and  without  any  dispensation  already 
granted  by  the  Pope,  or  any  authority  from  the  See  of  Rome,  or  any  person 
whatsoever;  and  without  thinking  that  I  ain  or  can  be  acquitted  before  God 
or  man,  or  absolved  of  this  declaration,  or  any  part  thereof,  although  the 
Pope,  or  any  other  person  or  persons,  or  a7iy  authority  whatsoever,  shall 
dispense  with  or  annul  the  same,  or  declare  that  it  was  null  and  void  from 
the  beginning. 

That  was  an  oath,  was  it  not? 

Voices — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Was  it  not  a  vow? 

Voices — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  he  break  it? 

Voices — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Had  he  a  right  to  break  it? 

Voices — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  he  not  break  it  rightfully  when  he  saw  he 
had  made  a  bad  oath,  a  bad  vow?  Did  he  not  draw  that  sword 
and  fight  against  King  George  III? 

Voices — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie— Was  he  a  traitor? 

Voices — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Apply  this  principle  to  the  man  who  breaks  his 
Masonic  vow.  That  oath  is  a  bad,  wicked  oath.  The  man 
swears  that  he  will  take  rSvenge  upon  the  enemies  of  Masonry; 
that  he  will  maintain  Masons  in  all  kinds  of  iniquity;  that  he 


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will  help  them  to  escape  the  consequence  of  their  crimes;  that 
he  will  submit  himself  to  the  penalty  of  having  his  throat  cut 
from  ear  to  ear  and  his  heart  plucked  out  and  thrown  into  the 
sea,  and  all  sorts  of  abominable  things,  if  he  should  reveal  the 
so-called  secrets. 

Are  these  good  oaths? 

Voices — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  it  right  to  make  them? 

Voices — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie— Is  it  right  to  break  bad  oaths  like  these? 

Voices — “  Yes.” 

A  MASONIC  OATH  IS  A  COVENANT  WITH  THE  DEVIL. 

Dr.  Dowie — George  Washington  broke  an  oath  on  no  better 
ground  than  any  ex-Freemason  breaks  his  oath. 

When  a  person  makes  such  an  oath,  it  is  a  covenant 
with  the  Devil.  It  is  not  a  covenant  with  God  the  Father 
in  the  Name  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  upon  which  the  Holy 
Spirit’s  blessing  rests.  It  is  not  in  accordance  with  the  Word 
of  God. 

It  is  a  covenant  made  in  an  order  where  the  Name 
of  Jesus  Christ  is  refused  admission  in  its  fundamental 
degrees. 

I  want  to  make  this  perfectly  clear.  I  hold  in  my  hand  a 
little  book  now.  It  was  given  to  me  by  a  Freemason  of  very 
high  degree.  His  apron  hangs  up  yonder  on  the  wall  of  this 
Tabernacle.  His  jewels  are  in  that  star.  That  Mason  said  to  me 
that  this  book  was  an  authoritative  manual,  which  he  used  him¬ 
self  in  conducting  lodges  and  in  initiating  candidates.  It  is 
official. 

I  will  read  the  title  of  it: 

The  Masonic  Manual.  A  Pocket  Companion  for  the  Initiated :  Con¬ 
taining  the  Rituals  of  Freemasonry  Embraced  in  the  Degrees  of  the  Lodge, 
Chapter  and  Encampment;  Embellished  with  Upwards  of  Three  Hundred 
Engravings.  Together  with  Forms  of  Masonic  Documents,  Notes,  Songs, 
Dates,  etc.  Compiled  and  arranged  by  Robert  Macoy,  Past  Master,  Past 
Grand  Secretary,  Past  Grand  Commander,  Grand  Recorder,  etc.  Revised 
Edition.  New  York:  Clark  &  Maynard,  5  Barclay  St. 

I  desire  to  quote  from  the  Manual  a  proof  of  what  I  have 
just  said,  that  although  the  Bible  is  in  the  lodge,  it  is  only  a 
pretense  and  a  sham  and  a  lie,  and  kept  there  for  the  purpose 
of  deceiving  the  people.  Although  the  cross  is  there,  it  is  not 
the  Cross  of  Jesus.  It  is  the  cross  of  Baal-sha-lisha — the  Lord 
of  the  Three. 

From  the  beginning  to  the  end  of  that  Manual,  in  the  three 
degrees  of  the  Blue  Lodge,  in  every  quotation  that  is  taken 
from  the  Bible,  the  Name  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  cut 
out. 


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It  is  never  used  in  any  prayer.  The  Lord  Jesus  Christ  has 
no  place  in  the  lodge. 

THE  NAME  OF  JESUS  CHRIST  LEFT  OUT  OF  SCRIPTURE  BY 

MASONIC  RITUAL. 

In  the  Manual  on  page  86,  in  connection  with  the  charge  at 
the  opening  of  the  lodge  in  the  initiation  of  a  Master  Mason, 
the  quotation  is  made  from  the  New  Testament: 

Wherefore,  brethren,  lay  aside  all  malice,  and  guile,  and  hypocrisies, 
and  envies,  and  all  evil  speakings.  If  so  be  ye  have  tasted  that  the  Lord  is 
gracious;  to  whom  coming,  as  unto  a  living  stone,  disallowed  indeed  of 
men,  but  chosen  of  God,  and  precious;  ye  also,  as  living  stones,  be  ye  built 
up  a  spiritual  house,  an  holy  priesthood,  to  offer  up  sacrifices  acceptable  to 
God— 

And  there  they  stop.  What  is  the  rest  of  that  passage? 

“Through  Jesus  Christ.” 

But  they  cut  that  out. 

Why? 

Because  Freemasonry  is  heathen.  Freemasonry  is  admit¬ 
tedly  heathen,  as  I  shall  show  you.  It  is  unchristian,  and  it  is 
antichristian. 

On  page  157  of  this  Manual,  under  the  charge  at  opening 
the  lodge  of  the  degree  of  Royal  Arch,  this  portion  of  the 
Scripture  is  read : 

Now  we  command  you,  brethren,  that  ye  withdraw  yourselves  from 
every  brother  that  walketh  disorderly. 

That  looks  like  Scripture,  does  it  not?  It  is  Scripture  with 
something  left  out.  Flere  is  the  Scripture: 

Now  we  command  you,  brethren,  in  the  Name  of  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ ,  that  ye  withdraw  yourselves  from  every  brother  that  walketh 
disorderly. 

They  leave  out  the  words  “in  the  Name  of  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ.” 

Now  them  that  are  such,  we  command  and  exhort,  that  with  quiet¬ 
ness  they  work,  and  eat  their  own  bread. 

But  that  is  not  the  Scripture.  The  Scripture  puts  in  these 
words : 

Now  them  that  are  such,  we  command  and  exhort  in  the  Lord  Jesus 

Christ. 

But  they  cut  that  out. 

Then  in  the  same  passage: 

The  Lord  be  with  you  all. 

That  is  2  Thessalonians  3.  They  omit  there  the  words: 

The  grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  be  with  you  all. 

They  leave  out  Christ’s  Name  everywhere  it  occurs.  That 
is  the  fact  throughout  the  whole  of  the  ceremonies. 

If  a  Christian,  a  professed  Christian  minister,  a  member  of 
a  Church,  goes  into  a  lodge,  he  having  been  previously  pledged 
that  he  will  do  nothing  except  in  the  Name  of  the  Lord  Jesus, 


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is  he  not  a  hypocrite  when  he  goes  into  a  place  where  the  Name 
of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  cut  out? 

Voices — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  he  not  a  liar? 

Voices — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — When  he  tells  you  that  the  Bible  is  read  there, 
and  he  knows  that  every  mention  of  the  Lord  is  cut  out,  is  he 
not  a  deceiver? 

Voices— “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — That  is  what  every  Mason  is  when  he  says  that 
the  lodge  ritual  is  not  opposed  to  Christianity.  He  is  a  liar, 
because  it  cuts  out  the  Name  of  Jesus,  and  will  not  allow  the 
Name  of  Jesus  to  be  mentioned  in  the  fundamental  degrees  of 
the  order. 

I  will  give  further  proof  of  that. 

MASONS  THEMSELVES  INSIST  THAT  CHRIST  HAS  NO  PLACE  IN 

MASONRY. 

I  hold  in  my  hand  a  book  which  is  the  first  seven  Masonic 
degrees,  by  Jacob  O.  Doesburg,  Past  Master  of  Unity  Lodge 
No.  1 9 1 ,  F.  and  A.  M.,  Holland,  Michigan. 

That  book  has  affidavits  attesting  its  genuineness,  not  only 
by  Mr.  Doesburg,  who  was  a  Master  of  a  lodge,  but  by  others. 

I  want  to  point  out  to  you  that  the  religious  nature  of  this 
order  is  ungodly,  unchristian.  It  is  simply  fundamentally  the 
worship  of  nature. 

He  quotes  very  freely,  and  I  will  tell  you  the  chapter  and 
page. 

Page  38:  He  says,  quoting  from  “Chase’s  Digest  of 
Masonic  Law,”  page  206,  one  of  the  accepted  authorities 
amongst  Freemasons: 

To  require  that  a  candidate  profess  a  belief  in  the  Divine  authenticity 
of  the  Bible,  or  a  state  of  future  rewards  and  punishments,  is  a  serious  inno¬ 
vation  in  the  very  body  of  Masonry.  ...  It  is  antimasonic  to  require 
any  religious  test,  other  than  the  candidate  should  believe  in  God,  the 
Creator  and  Governor  of  the  Universe. 

Any  Chinaman  or  red  Indian  can  say  that.  There  is  noth¬ 
ing  of  Christianity  in  that.  It  is  compatible  with  Unitarianism  ; 
it  is  compatible  with  Judaism;  it  is  compatible  with  Shinto 
worship;  it  is  compatible  with  Chinese  worship;  it  is  compati¬ 
ble  with  all  kinds  of  heathenism. 

Quoting  again  from  “Chase’s  Digest,”  which,  mind  you,  is 
written  in  the  interests  of  Freemasons,  page  207: 

The  Jews,  the  Chinese,  the  Turks,  each  reject  either  the  New  Testa¬ 
ment,  or  the  Old,  or  both,  and  yet  we  see  no  good  reason  why  they  should 
not  be  made  Masons.  In  fact,  Blue  Lodge  Masonry  has  nothing  whatever 
to  do  with  the  Bible.  It  is  not  founded  on  the  Bible;  if  it  was,  it  would  not 
be  Masonry;  it  would  be  something  else. 

Let  the  Masonic-Methodist  tell  us  then  what  it  is  founded 
on,  if  it  is  not  founded  on  the  Word  of  God?  You  who  claim  to 

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ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


be  Christians,  and  belong  to  the  Masons,  an  organization  which 
is  not  founded  upon  the  Word  of  God,  what  have  you  become? 

I  will  show  you  how  utterly  ungodly  and  heathen,  anti- 
christian  and  devilish  the  lodges  in  this  State  are. 

I  hold  in  my  hand  a  very  little  known  pamphlet.  Not  one 
newspaper  in  Chicago  has  dared  to  print  the  terrible  facts  of 
this  awful  revelation  of  the  criminal  character  of  Masonry. 

THE  STARTLING  FACTS  REVEALED  BY  JUDGE  WHITNEY’S 

EXPOSURE. 

I  have  been  giving  a  good  deal  of  attention  to  this  pam¬ 
phlet  today,  and  I  know  no  better  way  to  show  you  the  devilry 
of  practical  Masonry  in  this  State  and  city  than  by  taking  this 
pamphlet  and  showing  you  what  it  contains. 

It  is  written  by  Judge  Daniel  H.  Whitney,  who  was  Worship¬ 
ful  Master  of  Belvidere  Lodge  No.  60.  It  is  his  defense 
before  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  of  Illinois  in  October, 
1851.  It  has  never  been  printed  in  any  paper  in  this  city.  The 
facts  have  all  been  suppressed.  He  was  brought  before  the 
Grand  Lodge  on  the  charge  of  unmasonic  conduct.  What  do 
you  think  was  his  unmasonic  conduct?  That  as  a  Judge  sworn 
to  obey  the  laws  and  put  them  in  operation  for  the  punishment  of 
the  criminal,  he  had  attempted  to  bring  a  Mason  by  the  name  of 
Samuel  L.  Keith  to  justice  for  the  murder  of  a  woman  by  the 
name  of  Ellen  Slade.  This  Samuel  L.  Keith  was  a  member  of 
Judge  Whitney’s  own  lodge.  He  had  defiled  this  woman.  She 
had  become  pregnant  through  him.  He  had  an  abortion  per¬ 
formed,  and  between  him  and  the  doctor  murdered  the  woman. 

This  Judge  did  his  duty.  The  Coroner’s  Jury  found  a  ver¬ 
dict  of  guilty  against  this  man  Keith  ;  a  warrant  was  issued  for 
his  apprehension.  That  warrant  was  placed  in  the  hands  of 
the  Sheriff,  a  Freemason.  That  warrant  was  not  executed. 
Judge  Whitney,  although  a  Freemason,  was  indignant  to  find 
that  this  man  who  was  a  member  of  his  lodge  was  a  murderer; 
that  there  was  a  warrant  for  his  apprehension,  but  that  the 
Constable  and  Sheriff  were  Masons,  and  that  they  were  covering 
the  man;  that  the  man  had  disappeared. 

Judge  Whitney,  as  the  Worshipful  Master  of  the  lodge  in 
Belvidere,  a  place  less  than  a  hundred  miles  from  this  city, 
found  that  this  man  was  still  near  Belvidere,  hidden. 

As  the  County  Judge  and  an  upright  man,  he  issued  his  own 
warrant  for  the  apprehension  of  the  criminal.  He  was  arrested 
near  Paw  Paw  Grove  in  the  wagon  of  a  farmer  named  John 
Allen,  hidden  beneath  bags  of  hay. 

Amongst  the  Masons  who  protected  the  murderer  was  an 
ex-Major-General  of  the  United  States  Army,  who  had  been 
found  guilty  of  many  crimes  by  a  Special  Commission  presided 
over  by  Maj.-Gen.  William  T.  Smith.  The  Judge  suddenly 


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found  that  the  whole  of  his  lodge  was  arrayed  against  him, 
and  that  they  held  that  he  was  committing  unmasonic  con¬ 
duct  in  wanting  to  punish  this  murderer. 

For  his  act  this  Worshipful  Master  was  brought  before  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  of  Illinois.  He  was  degraded, 
threatened,  and  expelled.  He  was  pointed  to  as  a  man  whom 
any  Mason  could  slay  with  impunity,  practically,  under  their 
oath.  He  was  only  delivered  from  their  “ruffianly  designs  of 
violence  and  death  at  the  hands  of  Master  Masons”  by  the  fact 
that  the  people  of  Belvidere,  speaking  generally,  were  with 
him,  and  that  “every  move  was  watched”  of  those  who  had 
these  evil  purposes. 

THE  PROOFS  FOR  JUDGE  WHITNEY’S  STORY. 

This  story  I  have  on  the  affidavits  of  Judge  Whitney,  and 
of  the  Deputy  Coroner  F.  B.  Hamlin  and  all  the  jury  who 
found  him  guilty,  excepting  two.  I  will  read  to  you  some  few 
points  in  proof  of  what  I  have  now  said. 

Judge  Whitney  declares  that  Joel  Florida,  the  Sheriff,  a 
brother  Mason,  was  asked  if  he  had  a  warrant  against  Keith, 
and  that  he  said  if  he  had  a  warrant  against  Keith,  and  saw  him, 
and  had  it  in  his  power  to  arrest  him,  he  would  not  do  it. 

I  ask  you,  is  there,  then,  protection  for  any  citizen  of  the 
United  States  if  the  law  against  murder  must  be  put  aside  by 
a  Freemason? 

Voices — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — It  is  a  blow  at  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States,  of  all  law,  of  all  liberty. 

Judge  Whitney,  in  his  defense,  presented  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  renouncing  Masonry,  says: 

judge  whitney’s  terrible  indictment  of  freemasonry. 

I  write,  and  state  that  this  lodge  has  been,  for  nearly  two  years  past, 
nearer  a  hell  than  anything  earthly  that  I  can  conceive  of. 

I  find  myself  associated,  as 'a  Mason,  with  drunkards,  blackguards, 
loafers,  gamblers,  whoremasters,  and  murderers,  and  their  aiders  and  abet¬ 
tors  and  accessories. 

Disgusted  and  ashamed  of  such  associates,  some  two  years  ago  I 
applied  for  a  demit,  which  was  granted;  but  afterwards,  through  the  impor¬ 
tunity  of  worthy  members,  and  we  have  such,  I  consented  to  a  motion  to 
rescind  the  vote  granting  the  demit,  and  took  the  office  of  Senior  Warden, 
worried  on  through  the  year,  and,  hoping  that  I  might  be  able  to  restore 
harmony  in  the  lodge,  and  arrange  its  greatly  deranged  finances,  and  rely¬ 
ing  on  pledges  that  discipline  should  be  enforced,  I  took  the  office  of  Mas¬ 
ter,  evidently  against  the  good  wishes  of  the  loafers  and  rowdies;  and  the 
lodge  has  struggled  on,  improved  only  in  its  finances,  until  the  death  of 
Ellen  Slade,  whom,  it  appears  from  the  finding  of  the  Coroner’s  Jury, 
Samuel  L.  Keith,  a  member  of  this  lodge,  seduced,  and  procured  an  oper¬ 
ation  to  produce  an  abortion,  which  resulted  in  her  sudden  death,  June  20th. 

When  the  open  and  palpable  course  of  members  to  screen,  secrete  and 
run  off  Keith  was  unveiled,  I  promptly  rebuked,  and  endeavored  to  throw 
the  odium  from  the  institution  of  Masonry  and  upon  those  whom  I  believe 
guilty  of  the  base  transaction. 


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But,  after  all,  here  is  the  head  and  front  of  my  offending:  A  warrant 
was  put  into  the  hands  of  Joel  Florida,  Sheriff,  and  member  of  this  lodge, 
on  Sunday  night,  commanding  the  arrest  of  Keith;  the  Sheriff  made  no 
effective  move  to  execute  it,  nor  sent  out  officers,  nor  gave  the  warrant  to 
any  one.  All  was  excitement,  and  at  a  large  meeting  assembled  at  the 
Court  House,  I  denounced  the  conduct  of  the  Sheriff,  and  repelled  the 
charges  publicly  made  against  the  institution,  and  assured  the  people  that 
Masonry  taught  the  contrary,  and  that  these  men  were  acting  on  their  own 
responsibility  and  in  derogation  of  their  duties,  not  only  as  citizens,  but  as 
Masons. 

I  (being  Judge  of  the  county)  issued  on  Wednesday  morning  a  warrant, 
and  put  it  into  the  hands  of  officers  and  men  on  whom  I  could  rely,  and  in 
whom  the  people  had  confidence,  and  they  arrested  and  brought  Keith 
back  to  town  on  Friday  morning. 

But  the  Freemasons  got  a  packed  Grand  Jury  together  a 
few  months  later,  which  disgracefully  reversed  the  verdict  of  the 
Coroner’s  Jury  and  liberated  the  murderers. 

Now  I  will  read  a  few  words  more  from  Judge  Whitney’s 
statement  as  to  the  character  of  the  Masons,  and  then  I  will 
give  you  the  facts  as  set  forth  by  the  Coroner’s  Jury,  and  the 
rebuttal  of  the  attempt  to  whitewash  the  murderer  by  Maj.- 
Gen.  Hurlbut,  their  lawyer. 

I  will  state  that  our  chaplain,  the  Rev.  O.  Miller,  in  open  lodge 
charged  Brother  Burgess,  to  his  face,  with  having  equivocated  and  lied  to 
him,  and  that  such  had  been  his  course  of  deceit  and  duplicity,  and  that  he 
had  shown  such  an  utt©r  disregard  of  truth  and  veracity  that  he  felt  it  his 
duty  to  declare  that  he  would  not  believe  him  under  oath. 

“  I  find  myself  associated,  as  a  Mason,  with  drunkards,  gamblers,”  etc., 
etc.  (A  part  of  the  answer  in  justification  of  the  foregoing  sentence,  details 
a  case  of  licentiousness  and  drunkenness  on  the  part  of  two  of  the  members 
of  this  lodge,  too  revolting  to  publish;  the  whole  has  become  public;  and 
yet  no  notice  was  ever  taken  of  these  beastly  transactions  by  the  lodge.) 
In  the  lodge  are  ten  or  fifteen  hard  drinkers.  By  reference  to  the  records 
of  the  Circuit  Court  of  this  county,  I  find  two  indictments  against  a  brother, 
holding  at  the  time  high  office  in  the  lodge,  one  for  gambling,  the  other  for 
keeping  a  common  gaming  house;  and  at  the  same  term,  an  indictment 
against  another  brother  then  holding  high  office  in  the  lodge,  for  gambling; 
and  at  the  same  term,  an  indictment  against  a  private  member  for  gam¬ 
bling;  and  at  the  same  term,  an  indictment  against  an  unaffiliated  brother 
for  gambling;  and  yet  no  mention  was  ever  made  of  dealing  with  these 
members,  although  the  gambling  and  rowdyism  of  these  and  other 
members  was  well  known  as  one  of  the  causes  of  my  applying  for  a 
demit. 

Several  weeks  before  the  murder  of  Miss  Slade,  a  brother  came  to  me 
in  open  lodge  and  stated  that  a  brother  who  had  committed  a  murder 
wished  to  visit  the  lodge.  I  absolutely  refused  to  permit  it,  and  there  the 
matter  dropped.  But  being  astonished  that  a  murderer  could  present  him¬ 
self  as  a  Mason  in  good  standing,  I  afterwards  made  inquiry,  and  this 
seems  to  be  the  state  of  the  case,  as  nearly  as  I  have  been  able  to  ascertain, 
and  which  I  think  can  be  relied  on.  Some  eighteen  months  or  two  years 
ago,  a  Freemason  murdered  a  man  in  La  Salle,  or  some  county  in  that 
region  of  the  State,  and  was  indicted  and  tried  and  found  guilty,  or  the 
jury  disagreed;  and  pending  the  motion  for  a  new  trial,  or  before  he  was 
formally  remanded,  as  the  case  may  have  been,  he  was  spirited  away,  and 
got  into  the  country,  and  was  secreted  by  members  of  Belvidere  Lodge, 
until  the  murderer  could  be  helped  off  to  California.  This,  it  appears,  was 
the  same  man  returning,  secretly,  for  his  family,  and  yet  a  Mason  in  good 
standing. 


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The  Masonically-murdered  William  Morgan  and  Ellen 
Slade,  with  this  noble  Judge  Whitney,  are  standing  in  Chicago 
in  Central  Zion  Tabernacle  and  witnessing  from  their  graves 
today  in  this  Inquisition  for  Blood  which  Zion  is  making  for 
God.  (Amen.) 

The  truth  has  been  suppressed  for  years,  and  I  am  going  to 
bring  out  the  truth.  He  says,  closing  his  renunciation  of 
Masonry: 

judge  whitney’s  terrible  denunciation  of  freemasonry. 

My  connection  with  the  lodge,  thus  far,  shows  to  me  the  utter  falsity  of 
all  that  was  represented  to  me  of  Masonry  before  I  became  a  Mason. 

“Brotherly  Love  and  Truth”  are  almost  total  strangers  to  the  lodge, 
and  “  charity  and  relief”  have  seldom  entered  our  door;  not  a  twentieth 
time  as  often  as  pails  of  beer  have.  Out  of  a  revenue  of  some  ten  or  twelve 
hundred  dollars,  but  about  fifty  has  ever  been  appointed  for  charitable 
purposes,  and  yet,  it  is  all  frittered  away.  To  speak  to  you  of  “harmony” 
among  us  would  be  an  insult  to  its  shade. 

But  if  it  is  what  its  controlling  votaries  make  it  here, — if  no  crime  is 
repugnant  to  Masonry  but  imaginary  or  real  infringment  of  its  usages,  and 
the  refusal  to  violate  the  laws  of  the  land  and  of  God,  to  shield  a  member 
from  the  punishment  due  to  crime,  then  is  Freemasonry  all  that  has  been 
charged  by  its  enemies, — the  darkest  and  most  damning  institution  that  has 
ever  scourged  the  earth  and  cursed  mankind? 

That  is  the  statement  of  a  Judge  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
living  within  a  hundred  miles  of  this  city.  Every  endeavor 
was  made  to  get  it  into  the  public  press,  but  the  papers  refused 
to  print  it. 

They  printed  lies  about  this  man,  damned  and  blighted  his 
character,  and  stained  a  fair,  good  name.  They  never  published 
the  truth.  From  a  Review  of  the  Evidence,  published  by  Ezra 
A.  Cook,  of  this  city,  I  take  the  following:  First,  an  attempt 
to  justify  the  murderers,  which  was  written  by  their  vile 
attorney,  and  published  in  the  Chicago  Journal;  and,  second,  a 
full  statement  of  the  case  by  Coroner  F.  B.  Hamlin  and  all  the 
jury  but  two : 

MASONIC  ATTEMPT  TO  CLEAR  THE  MURDERER  SAMUEL  L.  KEITH.  THE 
CHICAGO  JOURNAL  REFUSES  TO  PUBLISH  THE  CORONER’S 
STATEMENT.  JUDGE  WHITNEY’S  REASONS  FOR 
RENOUNCING  MASONRY,  ETC. 

Sep.  16.  A.  L.,  5851,  A.  D.  1851. 

To  C.  G.  Y.  Taylor ,  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Master,  and  the  members  of 

the  Grand  Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  the  State  of  Illinois — 

In  Annual  Communication  at  Springfield,  October,  jSji. 

On  the  9th  of  September,  1851,  the  Circuit  Court  convened  at  Belvi- 
dere.  There  was  an  unusually  large  attendance  of  people  from  the  coun¬ 
try,  and  those  of  our  best  citizens. 

A  MASONIC  SHERIFF  PACKS  A  GRAND  JURY. 

There  were  five  Grand  Jurors  absent,  or  set  aside  for  cause;  and  the 
Sheriff  was  ordered  to  fill  the  panel.  He  summoned  as  talesmen,  Ralph  U. 
Rix,  the  Secretary  of  the  Lodge,  who  is  both  a  Mason  and  an  Odd  Fellow; 
two  other  Masons,  one  residing  in  and  the  other  near  town;  one  Odd  Fel- 


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low,  and  the  fifth  neither  a  Mason  or  an  Odd  Fellow,  but  an  ardent  friend 
of  Mr.  Keith. 

The  balance  of  the  Grand  Jury  were,  unfortunately,  young  and  inex¬ 
perienced  men. 

After  the  Court  adjourned,  the  following  appeared  in  the  Chicago 
Daily  Journal  of  September  13,  1851,  over  the  signature  of  S.  A.  Hurlbut, 
one  of  the  counsel : 

“  Editors  Chicago  Journal,  Gents:— As  a  great  deal  of  excitement 
was  stirred  up  sometime  since,  by  the  story  of  an  alleged  murder  com¬ 
mitted  in  this  town  with  which  the  name  of  Mr.  Samuel  L.  Keith  was  con¬ 
nected  by  public  report.it  is  proper  that  the  same  publicity  should  be  given 
to  the  justification  which  that  gentleman  has  at  length  received  under  the 
law.  In  the  time  of  the  excitement  alluded  to,  no  pains  were  spared,  here  or 
elsewhere,  to  give  currency  to  the  charges  against  Mr.  Keith,  and  although 
in  many  persons  who  lent  themselves  to  the  feverishness  of  the  day  the 
excitement  was  excusable,  yet  in  many  others  the  occasion  was  eagerly 
caught  at  for  gratifying  their  private  hostility,  under  the  mask  of  a  zeal  for 
public  justice.  It  is  to  the  latter  class  that  the  sweeping  charges  of  murder, 
paraded  in  the  newspapers  and  hawked  about  the  streets,  are  traceable, 
and  to  such,  I  have  no  doubt,  the  recent  action  of  our  Grand  Jury  has 
proved  a  wholesome  lesson. 

“At  the  present  term  of  the  Court,  a  Grand  Jury  composed  of  our  most 
noted  and  influential  citizens  was  empaneled,  nearly  every  member  of 
which  was  subjected  to  examination  as  to  his  impartiality,  and  stood  the 
test.  After  a  full  and  patient  hearing  of  the  case,  and  the  production  of  the 
testimony,  they  refused  to  find  any  bill  whatever,  and  Mr.  Keith  was  dis¬ 
charged  from  his  recognizance. 

“  Dr.  Woodward,  whose  name  has  also  been  mentioned  in  the  same  con¬ 
nection,  has  been  indicted  for  the  crime  of  involuntary  manslaughter,  and 
will  stand  his  trial  at  some  future  term. 

“  By  publishing  this  statement  of  facts,  you  will  render  a  service  to  one 
who  has  been  cruelly  attacked,  and  whose  innocence  has  now  been  made 
manifest.  S.  A.  Hurlbut.” 

To  which  the  Coroner  and  several  of  the  jurors  made  the  following 
reply,  which  the  editors  refused  to  publish: 

“  Will  you  do  the  mass  of  the  people  of  this  county  the  favor  to  copy 
the  (above)  letter  of  S.  A.  Hurlbut,  from  the  Chicago  Daily  Jour¬ 
nal  of  September  13,  1851,  and  also  insert  the  annexed  statement  of 
facts? 

BRUTAL  MURDER  OF  AN  ORPHAN  GIRL  BY  A  MASON  AND  A  DOCTOR. 

“  Ellen  Slade  was  a  most  beautiful,  but  orphan,  English  girl,  who  went 
to  reside  in  the  family  of  Samuel  L.  Keith’s  father,  at  the  age  of  fourteen  or 
fifteen  years,  and  continued  to  reside  there,  as  we  are  informed,  between 
two  and  three  years.  About  three  months  before  her  death  it  was  rumored 
that  she  was  in  trouble,  and  that  S.  L.  Keith  was  the  author  of  her  ruin  and 
shame.  On  Friday  night,  June  20,  1851,  she  died  at  the  house  of  Dr.  Wood¬ 
ward,  in  Belvidere,  under  suspicious  circumstances.  The  same  night  Dr. 
Woodward  fled  the  country  (leaving  her  dead  body  in  the  house,  with  his 
wife  and  mother-in-law  and  twro  or  three  very  small  children)  and  was  pur¬ 
sued  by  Mr.  Smith,  ex-Sheriff,  and  the  Sheriff,  and  arrested  and  brought 
back  to  Belvidere.  F.  B.  Hamlin,  Esq.,  acting  as  Coroner,  held  an  inquest 
over  the  body  of  Miss  Slade  on  Saturday,  and  assembled  the  jury  again  on 
Sunday  evening,  who  continued  their  session  all  Sunday  night  and  a  part 
of  Monday. 

“  The  main  proof  before  the  Coroner’s  Jury  was:  That  the  post-mor¬ 
tem  examination  showed  extensive  injury,  and  abortion  which  produced  her 
death, — and  that  S.  L.  Keith  took  her  from  her  step-father’s  the  Sunday 
evening  previous  to  her  death.  After  her  death,  Keith  informed  one  person 
that  on  the  above  Sunday  evening  he  left  her  in  town  on  the  south  side 


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of  the  river;  and  he  informed  another  person  that  he  left  her  on  the  north 
side,  and  informed  both  that  he  had  not  seen  her  afterwards.  Dr.  Wood¬ 
ward,  after  he  had  been  arrested  and  brought  back  to  Belvidere,  went 
before  the  Coroner’s  Jury,  and  testified  that,  at  Keith’s  request,  he  visited 
her  at  Keith’s  private  room  in  his  store,  of  which  room  Keith  told  him  he 
kept  the  door  locked  and  carried  the  key  in  his  pocket;  and  that  on  the 
evening  of  the  Tuesday  that  he  visited  her  at  Keith’s  private  room,  she 
was  brought  to  his,  Dr.  Woodward’s,  house,  where  she  died  the  Friday  night 
succeeding. 

THE  GUILTY  DOCTOR  FLEES. 

“  L.  H.  Magher,  Mr.  Keith’s  clerk,  testified  that  he  returned  from 
Indiana  on  the  Tuesday  preceding  the  death  of  Miss  Slade,  and  started  to 
go  to  the  private  room  in  the  store,  when  Mr.  Keith  told  him  not  to  go  there 
and  that  he  did  not  want  any  one  to  go  to  that  room;  and  on  the  Friday 
night  of  Miss  Slade’s  death,  Mr.  Keith  said  to  him,  ‘  I  want  to  see  Dr. 
Woodward,  can’t  you  find  him?’  And  that  he,  Magher,  then  went  on  the 
mound  near  Dr.  Woodward’s  house,  when  Dr.  Woodward  came  to  him  and 
said,  ‘She  is  dead.’  Immediately  Mr.  Keith  came  to  them,  and  Dr.  Wood¬ 
ward  made  the  same  remark  to  Keith,  ‘  She  is  dead.’  Keith  replied,  ‘  It  is 
horrible, how  her  mother  will  feel.’  Dr.  Woodward  then  said  to  Mr.  Keith, 
‘There  will  be  a  fuss  about  this,  and  I  must  leave  the  country  tonight;  and 
my  family  affairs  are  in  a  bad  fix,  and  you  must  let  me  have  a  hundred 
dollars.’  Mr.  Keith  then  replied  ‘that  he  had  not  that  much  by  him.’ 
They  three  then  went  to  Mr.  Keith’s  store,  where  Woodward  and  Keith  had 
further  conversation;  Dr.  Woodward  then  told  Keith  that  he  would  go  and 
get  his  horse  and  come  back,  and  that  he,  Keith,  must  do  the  best  he  could 
for  him.  After  a  while  Dr.  Woodward  returned,  and  he  and  Keith  had 
another  interview,  and  then  Dr.  Woodward  left. 

FLIGHT  AND  CAPTURE  OF  KEITH. 

• 

“A  lawyer  went  into  the  jury  room,  as  the  Coroner  supposed  (the  pro¬ 
ceedings  being  ex-parte ),  to  aid  in  the  investigation  on  the  part  of  the 
people,  and  after  hearing  the  testimony  against  Mr.  Keith,  left  the  room, 
and  disclosed  the  fact  that  he  was  counsel  for  Keith,  and  Mr.  Keith  imme¬ 
diately  sold  out  his  stock  of  goods.  About  three  o’clock  on  Monday  morn¬ 
ing,  it  was  announced  to  the  Coroner  and  jury  that  Mr.  Keith  had  fled; 
being  through  with  the  evidence  in  the  case  of  Keith,  they  made  out  and 
delivered  to  the  Sheriff  a  warrant,  commading  Keith’s  arrest,  but  he  was 
nowhere  to  be  found. 

“  On  Wednesday  morning,  at  early  dawn,  a  gentleman  applied  to  Judge 
Whitney  for  a  warrant  for  the  apprehension  of  Keith ;  informing  him  that 
one  John  Allen,  residing  about  eight  miles  south  of  Belvidere,  went  to  one 
of  his  neighbors  in  the  early  part  of  the  night,  and  informed  him  that  one 
of  Mr.  Keith’s  lawyers  had  that  evening  paid  him  a  large  sum  of  money 
to  take  Mr.  Keith  from  near  Belvidere,  and  convey  him  with  haste  to  the 
Illinois  River;  and  requested  this  neighbor  to  aid  him,  which  he  refused  to 
do,  and  immediately  communicated  this  to  others. 

“On  this  information,  Judge  Whitney  issued  a  warrant  for  the  appre¬ 
hension  of  Mr.  Keith,  and  eight  or  ten  men  started  in  pursuit,  and  overtook 
and  arrested  Keith  and  Allen  toward  the  evening  of  that  day,  toward  Paw 
Paw  Grove.  They  found  upon  Allen  two  hundred  and  thirty  dollars,  which 
Keith  has  since  claimed  and,  we  understand,  taken  away  from  Allen. 

“Allen’s  wagon  was  arranged  with  two  wooden  springs  running  length¬ 
wise  of  the  inside  of  the  body,  on  which  sticks  were  laid  crosswise,  on  which 
were  bags  filled  with  hay,  giving  the  appearance  of  a  loaded  wagon,  and 
the  bags  high  enough  from  the  floor  of  the  wagon  to  admit  of  a  person 
creeping  under.  Mr.  Keith  was  brought  back  to  Belvidere  on  F riday  morn¬ 
ing  and  committed  to  Winnebago  County  Jail,  on  the  warrant  issued  by  the 
Coroner  and  jury.  Subsequently  he  was  taken  out  of  jail,  and  brought 


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before  Judge  Henderson  on  a  writ  of  habeas  corpus.  Judge  Henderson,  on 
the  same  testimony,  held  Mr.  Keith  to  bail  in  the  sum  of  two  thousand 
dollars. 

CONVINCING  NATURE  OF  EVIDENCE  AGAINST  KEITH. 

“With  the  Grand  Jury  we  have  nothing  to  do,  but  with  the  same  testi¬ 
mony  as  was  given  before  the  Coroner’s  Jury,  we  will  venture  to  say  that 
there  cannot  be  found  twenty-three  candid,  respectable  and  intelligent  men 
in  the  world  who  would  not  have  found  an  indictment;  what  the  testimony 
was  before  them,  we  do  not  know.  The  foregoing  are  the  main  facts,  and 
we  forbear  making  any  comments  on  them,  and  leave  the  candidate  to 
judge  whether  under  this  state  of  facts  the  people  were  justified  in  endeav¬ 
oring  to  arrest  Mr.  Keith,  or  whether,  as  Stephen  A.  Hurlbut,  one  of  his 
counsel  claims,  ‘he  has  been  cruelly  attacked.’ 

“That  ‘the  occasion  was  eagerly  caught  at  for  gratifying  private  hostil¬ 
ities,  under  a  mask  of  zeal  for  public  justice,’  is  a  charge  against  all  and 
every  one  of  this  community;  uncalled  for  and  unjust.  After  Mr.  Keith’s 
arrest,  all  excitement  subsided,  notwithstanding  it  seemed  the  desire  and 
determination  of  his  friends  to  provoke  and  keep  it  up,  to  give  color  to  the 
cry  of  persecution,  and  to  enable  them  to  draw  upon  public  sympathy,  and 
manufacture  public  opinion.  F.  B.  Hamlin,  Acting  Coroner;  Henry  L. 
Crosby,  F.  B.  Bement,  S.  Terwilliger,  D.  E.  Ellis,  D.  Ransom,  S.  Avery. 
Samuel  Powell,  N.  C.  Amsden,  Daniel  Reed,  Leonard  N.  Lake,  Jurors.  D. 
Leonard,  one  of  the  jurors,  was  absent,  and  the  other  one,  S.  C.  Gooding, 
the  above  was  not  presented  to.” 

Lest  any  one  should  give  weight  to  S.  A.  Hurlbut’s  letter 
which  I  have  just  quoted,  in  which  he  parades  his  Grand  Jury 
whitewash  of  the  murderer  Keith,  I  give  the  following  facts  as 
to  this  Masonic  lawyer’s  real  character,  which  show  that  he 
was  a  convicted  perjurer,  associate  of  swindlers,  and  that  he 
protected  criminals  from  punishment.  These  facts  are  con¬ 
tained  in  the  report  of  a  Special  Army  Commission,  dated 
April  2,  1865.  The  protector  of  the  murderers  of  Ellen  Slade 
was  afterwards  shown  to  be  a  swindling  Federal  officer — of 
course,  “a  good  Freemason”  all  the  time. 

CRIMINAL  RECORD  OF  KEITH.’s  COUNSEL,  MAJ.-GEN.  HURLBUT. 

From  the  Chicago  Tribune ,  September  26,  1874. 

Rockford,  Illinois,  September  25. — The  Journal  of  this  city  pub¬ 
lishes  tomorrow  morning  the  report  made  to  the  Secretary  of  War  in  1865 
by  a  special  Commission  appointed  by  President  Lincoln  to  investigate  the 
conduct  of  General  Hurlbut,  at  that  time  in  command  at  New  Orleans,  now 
a  member  of  Congress  from  the  Fourth  Illinois  District,  and  the  Republican 
candidate  for  reelection.  The  Journal  says: 

Two  years  ago,  when  the  Republican  Convention  nominated  General 
Hurlbut  as  its  candidate  for  Congress  for  the  Fourth  District,  the  Journal 
refused  to  support  him  on  account  of  his  personal  unfitness.  Prominent 
among  things  that  disqualified  him  was  his  administration  of  affairs  in  New 
Orleans  while  Military  Commander  of  the  Department  of  the  Gulf,  which 
had  become  so  notoriously  bad  that  President  Lincoln  appointed  Major- 
General  W.  T.  Smith,  of  the  Regular  Army,  and  the  Hon.  James  T.  Brady, 
of  New  York,  an  eminent  and  distinguished  jurist,  a  Commission  to  proceed 
to  New  Orleans  to  inquire  into  the  truth  of  the  charges  of  misdemeanors 
committed  by  his  sanction.  These  misdemeanors  were  referred  to  in 
general  terms  only,  for  the  reason  that  the  report  of  the  Commission  could 
not  be  obtained  by  the  Journal  to  lay  before  its  readers.  These  charges 
were,  as  a  matter  of  course,  denied  by  Mr. 'Hurlbut  and  his  friends,  and 


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59 


proof  of  the  existence  of  any  such  report  challenged.  A  copy  of  this  report 
we  were  at  the  time  unable  to  obtain. 

The  report  itself,  now  published  for  the  first  time,  makes  several 
columns  of  the  Journal ,  but  the  gravamen  of  the  charges  against  Hurlbut 
is  contained  in  the  following  letter  attached  to  the  report,  and  addressed 
officially  to  General  Canby,  then  in  command  of  the  Military  Division  of 
Western  Mississippi: 

THE  CHARGES. 

Office  of  the  Special  Commission,  \ 

New  Orleans,  April  12,  1865.  \ 

Major-General  E.  R.  S.  Canby,  Commander  Military  Division, 
Western  Mississippi: 

General. — The  Special  Commission  has  the  honor  to  report  that 
it  has  proceeded  so  far  in  examining  the  conduct  of  Major-Gen¬ 
eral  S  A  Hurlbut  as  to  be  entirely  satisfied  that  their  duty  requires 
them  to  recommend  his  being  dealt  with  as  being  guilty  of  heinous 

offenses.  . 

The  Commission  has  already  asked  the  Major-General  commanding 
the  Division  of  Western  Mississippi  to  confine  certain  officers  of  lesser  rank 
in  the  military  prison  for  frauds  committed  by  them  upon  the  Government 
of  the  United  States,  and  they  cannot  in  justice  to  themselves  or  those 
officers  longer  refrain  from  suggesting  that  Major-General  Hurlbut  be 
treated  in  the  same  manner.  The  testimony  taken  warrants  full  belief  in 
his  having  been  guilty:  First,  of  official  falsehood  in  an  endorsement  made 
by  him  on  a  letter  addressed  to  him  not  in  his  official  capacity,  by  Colonel 
H.  Robinson,  Provost-Marshal-General,  Department  of  the  Gulf,  which 
letter  is  dated  January  2,  1865;  but,  as  General  Hurlbut  knew,  was  not 
written  till  long  after  that  date  (correction  sent  to  Major-General  Canby), 
April  14,  1865.  Second,  a  similar  falsehood,  addressed  by  him  as  Com¬ 
mander  of  the  Military  Department  of  the  Gulf,  to  Major-General  Smith, 
one  of  the  Commissioners,  denying  all  knowledge  of  the  channels  by  which 
the  letter  above  mentioned  had  reached  him,  although  he  well  knew  by 
whom  it  had  been  delivered.  Third,  guilty  complicity  with  the  aforesaid 
Colonel  Robinson  while  the  latter  was  Provost-Marshal-General,  Depart¬ 
ment  of  the  Gulf,  in  receiving  bribes  or  gratuities  from  Clark  &  Fulton,  and 
C  A  Weed.  Fourth,  writing,  on  or  about  the  4th  day  of  April,  1865,  a 
letter  to  said  Robinson,  intending  to  create  false  testimony  in  his  favor  as 
to  the  taking  of  bribes  as  aforesaid,  antedating  the  letter  as  of  the  19th  day 
of  November,  1864.  Fifth,  granting  on  the  application  of  his  brother-in-law, 
L.  L.  Crandall,  permits  for  trade,  for  obtaining  which  he  knew  that  the  said 
Crandall  received  payment  in  one  instance  of  some  $5,000,  and  yet  neither 
reproving  or  taking  any  cognizance  of  the  act  as  illegal  or  unjust.  Sixth, 
perjury  committed  before  the  Commission,  in  falsely  swearing,  with  wilful 
and  corrupt  intent,  that  he  did  not  know  of  the  receipt  by  said  Crandall  of 
the  $5  000  aforesaid,  though  he  well  knew  the  fact  as  above  stated.  Seventh, 
perjury  and  wilfully,  corruptly  and  falsely  stating  before  the  Commission, 
under  oath,  that  the  aforesaid  letter,  purporting  to  be  written  on  the  19th 
day  of  November,  1864,  was  written  on  the  day  it  bears  date,  when  he  well 
knew  it  was  not.  Eighth,  conniving  with  the  S3.id  Robinson  to  prevent  the 
detection  of  offenses  that  had  been  perpetrated  by  said  Robinson  as  above 
mentioned.  Ninth,  wilfully  interfering  to  obstruct  and  hinder  this  Com¬ 
mission  in  the  discharge  of  its  duties  so  as  to  prevent  the  discovery,  of 
fraud  and  injustice  practiced  in  this  department  by  officers  in  the  service 
or  employment  of  the  Government. 

There  may  be  other  charges  founded  on  new  discoveries  of  moneys 
received  by  Major-General  Hurlbut,  or  evil  practices  at  which  he 
connived.  The  present  seems  abundant  to  call  for  arrest  and  imprison¬ 
ment. 


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* 

We  respectfully  submit  that  the  higher  the  rank  of  the  officer  who 
prostitutes  his  office,  the  more  promptly  should  be  the  method  of  dealing 
with  him,  and  with  this  feeling  we  commend  this  communication  to  your 
early  action. 

Your  obedient  servants,  Wm.  T.  Smith,  Major-General. 

James  T.  Brady. 

Judge  Whitney  is  not  living,  but  being  dead  he  yet 
speaketh. 

That  silent  form  of  Morgan  which  you  saw  in  the  cartoon 
in  Leaves  of  Healing  on  Saturday,  standing  there  with  his 
hands  bound  behind  his  back,  with  a  bandage  on  his  eyes  and 
a  gag  in  his  mouth,  with  a  rope  around  his  waist  and  great 
heavy  weights  at  his  side,  with  a  saloonkeeper  ready  to  push 
him  over  into  the  Niagara  River,  stands  today  with  the 
murdered  beautiful  English  girl,  Ellen  Slade,  two  witnesses 
against  the  Masonic-Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  whose 
Bishops  and  leaders  are  still  in  alliance  with  the  murderous 
secret  worshipers  of  Baal. 

It  was  a  Methodist  minister  who  gave  the  signal  at  Lewis¬ 
ton,  New  York,  when  he  stood  up  in  the  lodge,  took  his  glass 
and  said  :  “  The  enemies  of  our  order,”  in  accordance  with  the 

words  of  the  ritual,  “may  they  find  a  grave  six  feet  deep,  six 
feet  long,  and  six  feet  due  east  and  west.” 

Four  men  left  that  banqueting  table,  went  to  Fort  Niagara, 
took  Morgan  out,  bound  him  and  tied  him  in  the  way  I 
described.  Confessions  of  three  of  them  are  on  record,  and  I 
published  them  in  Leaves  of  Healing  of  May  5,  1900,  pages 
49-55- 

Morgan,  and  Ellen  Slade,  and  Judge  Whitney  stand  up  from 
their  graves  tonight  and  they  plead  against  the  Masonic-Meth¬ 
odist  Church  whose  minister  gave  the  toast  that  sent  one  to  his 
grave,  and  which  still  protects  the  organization  which  contains 
murderers  like  Woodward  and  Keith,  which  persecutes  honest 
judges  like  Whitney,  and  which  leaves  the  way  open  to  seduc¬ 
tion  and  the  horrible  destruction  of  innocent  and  beautiful 
girls  like  Ellen  Slade. 

Shall  we  who  serve  God  tolerate  longer  this  iniquity? 

Voices — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Shall  we  not  fight  it  out  with  ths  Devil? 

Voices — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — We  denounce  the  churches  which  affiliate  them¬ 
selves  with  the  antichristian  and  heathen  abomination  of  Baal- 
worship,  and  the  Unfruitful  Works  of  Darkness  in  all  their 
forms.  This  is  the  fight. 

All  who  believe  that  Masonry  is  an  antichristian  and  a 
heathen  abomination,  stand. 

>  You  will  find  all  the  Masonic  ministers  sitting  still,  ready 
to  give  a  toast  tonight:  “The  enemies  of  our  order,  may  they 
find  a  grave  six  feet  deep,  six  feet  long,  and  six  feet  due  east 


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and  west.”  (A  number  of  Methodist  ministers  present  kept  their 
seats  with  defiant  looks  and  gestures. ) 

The  same  murderous  spirit  is  in  them  tonight. 

Pray  for  them.  Pray  with  me. 

PRAYER  OF  CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus’  Name  I  come  to  thee.  Take  me  as  I  am. 
Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me  power  to 
do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Help  me  to  abstain  from  all  evil  asso¬ 
ciation;  from  the  so-called  Church  which  defiles  itself  with  the  association 
of  a  criminal  and  heathen  organization,  for  Jesus’  sake.  Amen.  (All  repeat 
the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Did  you  mean  it? 

Answer — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  live  it? 

Answer — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — God  help  you.  And  God  help  those,  some  of 
them  with  hoary  hairs,  who  sat  there  tonight  and  by  their 
sitting  damned  themselves.  God  have  mercy  upon  them. 

CLOSING  PRAYER. 

Father,  for  Jesus’  sake,  command  Thy  blessing  upon  this  company, 
upon  these  words;  and  help  us,  if  it  is  with  our  last  breath,  to  do  right.  We 
believe  that  Masonry  is  an  antichristian  and  heathen  abomination.  God 
destroy  it.  God  destroy  the  churches  which  protect  it,  and  set  the  people 
free.  Be  with  us  in  the  remainder  of  this  Conflict,  for  Jesus’  sake. 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil,  and  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly,  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


FOURTH  DISCOURSE. 


Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord’s  Day  Afternoon,  May  13,  1900. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing  Hymn  Number  6: 

Behold  a  Fountain  deep  and  wide, 

Behold  its  onward  flow ; 

’Twas  opened  in  the  Saviour’s  side,  ' 

And  cleanseth  “white  as  snow.” 

Chorus — Come  to  this  Fountain, 

’Tis  flowing  today; 

And  all  who  will  may  freely  come, 

And  wash  their  sins  away. 

SCRIPTURE  READING  AND  EXPOSITION. 

The  General  Overseer  then  read  in  the  Inspired  Word  of 
God  in  the  first  book  of  Kings,  beginning  in  the  sixteenth 
chapter,  from  the  twenty-ninth  verse  to  the  end  of  the  eigh- 


6  2 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


teenth  verse  of  the  eighteenth  chapter,  commenting  as  follows 
upon  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth  verses: 

And  it  came  to  pass,  when  Ahab  saw  Elijah,  that  Ahab  said  unto  him, 
Is  it  thou,  thou  troubler  of  Israel?  And  he  answered,  I  have  not 
troubled  Israel;  but  thou,  and  thy  father’s  house,  in  that  ye  have  for¬ 
saken  the  commandments  of  the  Lord,  and  thou  hast  followed  the 
Baalim. 

A  little  time  ago  a  gentleman  whom  I  know  well  now,  but 
whom  I  did  not  know  then,  came  for  the  first  time  into  this 
city.  He  said  to  a  Methodist  minister,  “Do  you  know  a  man 
named  Dowie?”  “Yes,”  he  said,  “I  know  a  man  who  is  a 
troubler  of  the  whole  Church  of  God;  that  is  the  man  I  know.” 
(Laughter.) 

I  am  glad  to  have  that  reputation.  (Laughter.) 

If  there  is  anything  that  needs  doing  today,  it  is  that  the 
nominal  Church  be  troubled.  May  the  good  Lord  help  me  to 
trouble  it.  (Amen.) 

Now  therefore  send,  and  gather  to  me  all  Israel  unto  M  ant  Carmel, 
and  the  prophets  of  Baal  four  hundred  and  fifty,  and  the  prophets  of  the 
Asherah  four  hundred,  which  eat  at  Jezebel’s  table.  So  Ahab  sent  unto  all 
the  children  of  Israel,  and  gathered  the  prophets  together  unto  Mount 
Carmel.  Now  therefore  send — 

There  is  a  time  when  a  prophet  of  God  stands  supreme  over 
all  human  law.  When  he  has  a  Message  from  God,  he  has 
a  right  to  command  kings,  presidents,  rulers,  czars  and 
emperors. 

I  believe  that.  Do  you? 

-  Voices — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — So  Elijah  said  “Send.”  He  told  the  Apostate 
King  what  he  was  to  do.  He  had  been  hunted  for,  that  he 
might  be  put  to  death  by  this  monster  Ahab,  the  king  who 
suddenly  found  that  he  had  to  obey  the  superior  authority  of 
the  Divinely-commissioned  prophet. 

Now  therefore  send  and  gather  to  me  all  Israel  unto  Mount  Carmel, 
and  the  prophets  of  Baal  four  hundred  and  fifty,  and  the  prophets  of  the 
Asherah  four  hundred,  which  eat  at  Jezebel’s  table.  So  Ahab  sent  unto  all 
the  children  of  Israel,  and  gathered  the  prophets  together  unto  Mount 
Carmel. 

Just  for  a  moment  pause  in  the  reading  and  think  of  it. 
Elijah  for  three  years  and  six  months  had  been  in  hiding.  He 
had  been  sought  for  everywhere.  If  he  had  had  a  thousand 
lives,  they  would  all  have  been  sacrificed  ;  and  yet  the  man  who 
was  hunted  appeared  and  compelled  the  king  who  wanted  to 
kill  him  to  do  what  he  told  him.  Think  over  that  fact  many 
times,  and  very  deeply,  and  then  remember  what  I  say — this 
scene  will  be  repeated  on  a  far  wider  scale  before  the  Twentieth 
Century  is  ten  years  old. 

So  Ahab  sent  unto  all  the  children  of  Israel. 

That  meant  every  tribe  of  the  ten,  for  Judah  was  not  in  this 
thing  at  all.  It  was  the  ten  tribes — our  fathers  as  I  believe, 


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according  to  the  flesh:  for  we  are  Israelites.  Judah  did  not  go 
into  this  sin.  It  was  Israel. 

THE  MODERN  ANGLO-SAXONS  AND  SCANDINAVIANS  THE  DESCEND¬ 
ANTS  OF  THE  TEN  TRIBES. 

The  kingdom  had  been  rent  in  twain.  It  was  this  accursed 
Freemasonry  of  that  time,  the  worship  of  Baal,  which  had  rent 
it  in  twain. 

Judah,  with  all  her  faults,  had  remained  more  or  less  true 
to  the  Temple  of  God  at  Jerusalem  and  worshiped  God.  Israel 
had  erected  a  temple;  possibly  one  upon  Mount  Gerizim.  It 
may  have  been  even  then  a  spurious  temple;  such  as  that  which 
Jesus  saw  when  he  talked  to  the  woman  of  Samaria  at  the  well 
of  Sychar,  when  she  pointed  up  to  Mount  Gerizim  saying,  “  Our 
fathers  worshiped  in  this  mountain,  but  ye  say  Jerusalem  is 
the  place  where  men  ought  to  worship.” 

You  Danes  and  Norwegians  belong  to  the  tribe  of  Dan. 

The  tribe  of  Dan  took  to  the  sea  in  ships,  landed  somewhere 
about  the  Danube — which  is  Dan’s  River — went  all  through 
Europe,  calling  every  place  by  the  name  of  their  father,  Dan. 
There  are  hundreds  of  places  in  Europe  which  preserve  the 
name  of  Don,  or  Den,  or  Dan,  to  this  day. 

Denmark  is,  as  you  Danes  know,  Dan-mark.  That  is  the 
correct  writing  of  it,  is  it  not,  Danes? 

Voices — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Dan-mark.  When  they  got  there  they  drew  a 
line  and  said,  “This  is  Dan’s  Mark,”  and  went  no  further.  The 
Anglo-Saxon  is  Isaac’s  son,  I-Saxon.  The  Anglo-Saxon  and 
the  Scandinavian  people  are  the  lineal  descendants  of  the  ten 
tribes. 

Our  fathers  sinned  in  this  terrible  thing. 

I  am  not  speaking  of  the  Jew.  The  Jews  are  seldom  Free¬ 
masons.  They  are  occasionally  so,  because  there  are,  alas, 
many  Jews  who  are  absolute  infidels.  They  have  lost  all  faith 
in  even  the  existence  of  a  personal  God,  or  of  the  expectation 
of  a  coming  Messiah.  Such  atheists  may  very  properly  become 
Freemasons,  who  are  without  God.  Atheism  is  no  bar  to 
fellowship:  for  the  point  within  the  circle ,  the  emblem  of 
unbridled  lust,  is  an  acceptable  emblem  to  an  atheist  who  lives 
only  for  self  and  sin. 

THE  BATTLE  BETWEEN  GOD  AND  BAAL  THROUGHOUT  THE  AGES. 

Israel  today  is  to  be  found  in  the  Anglo-Saxon  and  Scandi¬ 
navian  races.  It  is  that  Israel  which  God  has  promised  to 
bless,  to  call  by  a  new  name. 

This  same  conflict  between  a  true  God  and  a  false  god  goes 
on  through  the  ages  in  Israel. 

And  Elijah  came  near  unto  all  the  people,  and  said,  How  long  halt  ye 
between  two  opinions?  If  the  Lord  be  God,  follow  Him;  but  if  Baal,  then 


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follow  him.  And  the  people  answered  him  not  a  word.  Then  said  Elijah 
unto  the  people,  I,  even  1  only,  am  left  a  prophet  of  the  Lord;  but  Baal’s 
prophets  are  four  hundred  and  fifty  men.  Let  them  therefore  give  us  two 
bullocks ; — 

Yes,  the  prophet  of  God  had  no  bullocks.  The  thieves  had 
all  the  bullocks,  as  they  have  today;  for  the  most  part,  how¬ 
ever,  not  entirely.  God  shall  have  possession  of  all  the  cattle 
ere  long,  and  all  the  silver  and  all  the  gold. 

Let  them  therefore  give  us  two  bullocks;  and  let  them  choose  one 
bullock  for  themselves,  and  cut  it  in  pieces,  and  lay  it  on  the  wood,  and  put 
no  fire  under:  and  I  will  dress  the  other  bullock,  and  lay  it  on  the  wood, 
and  put  no  fire  under.  And  call  ye  on  the  name  of  your  god,  and  I  will  call 
on  the  Name  of  Jehovah:  and  the  God  that  answereth  by  fire,  let  Him  be 
God.  And  all  the  people  answered  and  said,  It  is  well  spoken.  And  - 
Elijah  said  unto  the  prophets  of  Baal,  Choose  you  one  bullock  for  your¬ 
selves,  and  dress  it  first;  for  ye  are  many;  and  call  on  the  name  of  your 
god,  but  put  no  fire  under.  And  they  took  the  bullock  which  was  given 
them,  and  they  dressed  it,  and  called  on  the  name  of  Baal  from  morning 
even  until  noon,  saying,  O  Baal,  hear  us.  But  there  was  no  voice,  nor  any 
that  answered.  And  they  leaped  about  the  altar  which  was  made.  And  it 
came  to  pass  at  noon,  that  Elijah  mocked  them,  and  said,  Cry  aloud:  for 
he  is  a  god. 

Methodists,  cry  aloud!  (Laughter.) 

Call  upon  your  god,  you  wretches  who  have  bowed  at  His 
sacred  shrine  in  the  Masonic  Lodge — you  call  him  Mah-hah-bo?ie. 
Scream  louder  for  fire.  Call! 

And  it  came  to  pass  at  noon,  that  Elijah  mocked  them,  and  said,  Cry 
aloud :  for  he  is  a  god ;  either  he  is  musing,  or  he  is  gone  aside,  or  he  is  in  a 
journey,  or  peradventure  he  sleepeth,  and  must  be  awaked.  And  they  cried 
aloud,  and  cut  themselves  after  their  manner  with  knives  and  lances,  till 
the  blood  gushed  out  upon  them.  And  it  was  so,  when  midday  was  past, 
that  they  prophesied  until  the  time  of  the  offering  of  the  evening  oblation; 
but  there  was  neither  voice,  nor  any  to  answer,  nor  any  that  regarded. 
And  Elijah  said  unto  all  the  people,  Come  near  unto  me;  and  all  the  people 
came  near  unto  him.  And  he  repaired  the  altar  of  the  Lord  that  was 
thrown  down.  And  Elijah  took  twelve  stones — 

Judah  was  not  going  to  be  forgotten. 

JUDAH  CAN  NEVER  BE  FORGOTTEN. 


Salvation  is  of  Judah.  It  is  of  the  Jews.  We  may  not  like 
it.  We  may  be  like  those  stupid  people  who  howl  at  the  Jew, 
and  yet  worship  a  Jewess  and  a  Jew — worship  Mary,  the 
Jewess,  and  Jesus,  the  Jew. 

The  prophet  of  God  must  not  forget  the  two  tribes.  Human¬ 
ity  is  indebted  to  the  Jew.  As  Jesus  said  at  Sychar,  “  Salvation 
is  of  the  Jews.” 

The  General  Overseer  then  read  verses  thirty-one,  thirty- 
two,  thirty-three  and  thirty-four  of  the  eighteenth  chapter  of 
I  Kings. 

Commenting  upon  the  thirty-fourth  verse,  he  said: 

There  is  a  great  deal  in  triunity.  One  God,  one  Faith, 
one  Baptism.  But  that  God  is  a  Triune  God:  Father,  Son  and 
Holy  Ghost;  and  that  Faith  is  a  Triune  Faith;  Salvation, 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  65 


Healing  and  Holy  Living;  and  that  Baptism  which  we  shall 
celebrate  tonight  in  this  place  is  a  Triune  Baptism  into  the 
Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost; 
death  to  sin,  life  in  God,  and  power  for  service.  The  man 
who  seeks  it  is  a  Triune  Man  with  a  spirit,  a  soul  and  a 
body. 

The  General  Overseer  then  read  verses  thirty-five,  thirty- 
six,  thirty-seven,  thirty-eight,  thirty-nine  and  forty  of  the 
eighteenth  chapter  of  1  Kings,  commenting  as  follows  upon  the 
fortieth : 

By  the  Sword  of  the  Spirit  these  false  prophets  shall  again 
be  destroyed.  (Amen.) 

And  Elijah  said  unto  Ahab,  Get  thee  up,  eat  and  drink;  for  there  is  the 
sound  of  abundance  of  rain. 

Nobody  else  could  hear  it,  but  the  prophet  could 
hear  it. 

So  Ahab  went  up  to  eat  and  to  drink.  And  Elijah  went  up  to  the  top 
of  Carmel;  and  he  bowed  himself  down  upon  the  earth,  and  put  his  face 
between  his  knees.  And  he  said  to  his  servant,  Go  up  now,  look  toward  the 
sea.  And  he  went  up,  and  looked,  and  said,  There  is  nothing.  And  he 
said,  Go  again  seven  times.  And  it  came  to  pass  at  the  seventh  time,  that 
he  said,  Behold,  there  ariseth  a  cloud  out  of  the  sea,  as  small  as  a  man’s 
hand. 

“as  small  as  a  man’s  hand.” 

I  am  only  a  small  man;  my  hand  is  a  very  small  hand. 
The  sneer  of  seven  years  ago  by  the  Methodist  ministers  of 
this  city  was  that  I  was  a  contemptible  little  man,  and  Zion 
Tabernacle  a  contemptible  “little  wooden  hut.”  One  called  it 
a  “bit  of  kindling  wood.” 

That  is  true,  for  it  has  kindled  a  fire  over  all  the  earth. 
(Applause.  Amen.) 

The  cloud  from  this  hand  has  gone  over  all  the  earth,  and 
it  has  brought  blessing,  by  the  goodness  of  God,  in  every 
nation  beneath  the  sun.  (Applause.) 

The  lightnings  are  striking  out,  and  I  tell  you,  your  days 
are  gone,  you  prophets  of  Baal  in  the  Methodist  Church! 
(Applause.)  Gone!  (Amen.) 

Blows  were  struck  years  ago,  and  ever  since  I  struck,  you 
have  been  withering. 

You  know  it  yourselves,  you  wretches! 

And  it  came  to  pass  at  the  seventh  time,  that  he  said,  Behold,  there 
ariseth  a  cloud  out  of  the  sea,  as  small  as  a  man’s  hand.  And  he  said,  Go 
up,  say  unto  Ahab,  Make  ready  thy  chariot,  and  get  thee  down,  that  the  rain 
stop  thee  not.  And  it  came  to  pass  in  a  little  while — 

A  LITTLE  WHILE — TILL  HE  COME. 

A  little  while — oh  God,  help  us  to  wait  for  a  little  while. 
(Amen.)  Thou  didst  say,  oh  Christ,  “a  little  while.”  It 
seems  long,  but  it  is  only  a  little  while. 


66  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

“Clouds  and  conflicts  around  us  press,”  but  that  little  while 
comforts;  for  He  will  come  again.  (Amen.) 

Only  a  little  while. 

Let 'the  little  while  between 
In  the  golden  light  be  seen, 

While  we  think  how  heaven  and  home 
Lie  beyond  that,  till  He  come. 

He  will  not  leave  us.  He  will  come  to  judge  the  earth 
with  ten  thousand  of  His  saints,  to  convict  the  ungodly  of  all 
their  ungodly  speecher -that  they  have  ungodly  spoken,  and 
of  all  their  ungodly  deeds.  I  believe  He  has  started  to  do  it. 
(Amen.)  The  ten  thousand  are  coming! 

Behold,  the  Lord  cometh  with  ten  thousand  of  his  saints,  to  execute 
judgment  upon  all,  and  to  convince  all  that  are  ungodly  among  them  of  all 
their  ungodly  deeds  which  they  have  ungodly  committed,  and  of  all  their 
hard  speeches  which  ungodly  sinners  have  spoken  against  Him. 

They  are  coming,  and  the  ten  thousand  times  ten  thousand 
are  coming  too. 

And  it  came  to  pass  in  a  little  while,  that  the  heaven  grew  black  with 
clouds  and  wind,  and  there  was  a  great  rain.  And  Ahab  rode,  and  went  to 
Jezreel.  And  the  hand  of  the  Lord  was  on  Elijah;  and  he  girded  up  his 
loins,  and  ran  before  Ahab  to  the  entrance  of  Jezreel. 

May  God  bless  His  Word. 

Mozart’s  sublime  anthem  of  praise,  “Gloria,”  was  then^sung 
with  splendid  effect  by  Zion’s  Choir. 

Prayer  was  offered  by  Overseer  Piper,  also  by  the  General 
Overseer,  at  the  close  of  which  the  congregation  and  choir 
chanted  the  Disciples’  Prayer. 

In  making  the  announcements,  the  General  Overseer,  among 
other  things,  said : 

CONCERNING  THE  NOMINATION  OF  JUDGE  YATES. 

The  Quadrennial  Conference,  the  Methodist  Baal-wor- 
shipers,  have  their  man  nominated  for  Governor,  but  they  have 
not  got  him  elected.  (Applause.)  Unless  I  can  get  some 
very  clear  understanding  that  he  has  nothing  to  do  with  Baal- 
worship,  Zion  will  go  for  a  good,  clean  Democrat,  if  you  can 
find  one,  especially  if  he  is  free  from  Masonry.  I  wish  there 
were  hope  of  a  Theocrat  winning;  but  I  can  see  none  for  the 
present. 

I  sometimes  think  that  the  remark  is  wonderfully  true: 
“Politicians  are  like  cards:  the  more  you  shuffle  them  the 
dirtier  they  get.”  (Laughter.) 

It  is  very  hard  to  know  which  is  the  dirtiest,  Republican  or 
Democrat,  sometimes.  May  God  give  us  some  day  a  Theo¬ 
cratic  candidate,  a  man  who  will  stand  for  the  rule  of  God. 
That  day  will  come. 

There  is  quite  a  strong  suspicion  that  Mr.  Yates  was  the 
Masonic  dark  horse,  and  if  Zion  finds  that  out,  then  Zion  will 
go  against  him  on  general  principles. 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  67 

That  means  many  thousands  of  votes  in  Chicago.  It, 
poss-ibly,  means  the  balance  of  power  in  Chicago.  I  think  the 
Democratic  and  Republican  vote  is  so  close  that  the  votes  of 
Zion  men,  and  those  whom  they  can  influence,  are  the 
balance  of  power  in  Chicago. 

The  race  is  not  always  to  the  swift,  nor  the  battle  to  those 

who  appear  to  be  strong,  ...  .  . 

One  man  with  God  on  his  side  is  an  absolute  majority  upon 

any  question.  ,  „  . 

After  a  few  further  announcement*  the  tithes  and  offerings 

were  received.  During  the  offering,  Zion  s  Junior  Choir  of 
bovs  sang  very  sweetly  in  their  clear  childish  voices.  Con¬ 
ductor  Rice  then  sang  the  prayer  of  Elijah  from  the  great 
oratorio  “Elijah”;  a  magnificent  solo,  magnificently  rendered. 


ELIJAH,  THE  PROPHET  OF  GOD,  AND  THE  PRIESTS 
OF  BAAL,  AT  CARMEL;  WITH  ITS  AP¬ 
PLICATION  TO  CHICAGO. 


The  General  Overseer  then  delivered  the  following  address: 

INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept¬ 
able  in  Thy  sight,  be  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom  these 
words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  in  this  and  all  the  coming  time, 
till  Jesus  come,  for  His  sake.  Amen. 

The  words  that  I  shall  place  in  the  front  of  all  I  have  to 
say  today  are  in  the  chapter  which  I  read,  the  eighteenth 
chapter  of  the  first  book  of  Kings,  and  at  the  twenty-first  verse : 

TEXT. 

And  Elijah  came  near  unto  all  the  people,  and  said,  How  long  halt  ye 
between  two  opinions?  If  Jehovah  be  God,  follow  Him;  but  if  Baal,  follow 

him. 

There  is  nothing  new  under  the  sun. 

History  not  only  repeats  itself,  but  history  never  does  any¬ 
thing  else.  In  one  form  or  another  the  same  conditions  con¬ 
tinue  throughout  the  ages,  and  the  conflict,  however  varied  in 
appearance  it  may  be,  is  still  the  same  conflict. 

The  conflict  between  good  and  evil,  between  God  and  the 
Devil,  between  a  humanity  destined  originally  to  be  a  Temple 
of  God  which  has  become  the  dwelling  place  of  devils,  the 
wrestling  of  the  prophets  and  the  apostles  in  all  the  ages,  does 

not  differ  from  our  wrestling  today. 

It  is  not  against  flesh  and  blood.  It  is  “against  the  prin¬ 
cipalities,  against  the  powers,  against  the  world-rulers  of  this 
darkness,  against  the  hosts  of  evil  spirits  in  the.  upper  air. 
That  expression  of  Paul’s,  “The  world-rulers  of  this  darkness, 


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ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


covers  it  all.  “This  darkness”  is  not  an  accident.  “The 
unfruitful  works  of  darkness”  do  not  exist  now  for  the  first  time. 

TUBAL-CAIN,  WHOSE  NAME  IS  THE  PASSWORD  FOR  MASTER 

MASONS,  AN  EARLY  APOSTATE. 

The  apostate  condition  of  the  churches  is  no  new  thing. 
The  sons  of  Seth  met  it  in  Tubal-Cain,  the  son  of  Cain.  He 
wrought  cunningly  in  iron  and  formed  weapons  by  means  of 
which  the  power  of  Cain  was  extended  over  the  world.  And, 
even  after  the  Tu  Baal-Cain  descendants  were  all  destroyed,  it  is 
very  evident  that  the  devils  which  possessed  them  were  not 
drowned:  for  Noah’s  descendants  aspired  to  tear  God  from 
His  Throne.  They  built  a  Babel.  They  thought  they  could 
reach  to  heaven  and  dethrone  God.  They  think  it  still.  They 
vainly  think  that  they  can  dethrone  the  Son  of  God  from  the 
Empire  which  God  the  Father  gave  Him,  and  make  a  mere 
tool  of  the  Masonic  Baal.  They  smile  at  His  claims,  and  with 
an  affectation  of  calm  superiority  they  tolerate  Christianity 
when  it  is  not  Christian. 

Satan  knows  where  to  strike  his  deadliest  blows.  When 
Noah  fought  his  fight,  it  was  all  in  vain.  God  could  only  save 
the  world  and  humanity  by  drowning  every  one  in  it,  except 
eight  people. 

The  history  of  humanity  is  continually  thus.  Again  and 
again  the  people  of  God,  misled  by  false  shepherds,  have  been 
sold  out  to  the  World,  the  Flesh  and  the  Devil,  even  while 
they  preserve  the  forms  of  Divine  worship.  Again  and  again 
in  the  history  of  God’s  own  chosen  people  have  there  been 
crises  in  which  it  seemed  as  if  there  were  only  one  man  who 
was  left  to  witness  for  God  against  an  apostate  Church. 

This  was  the  case  in  Elijah’s  time.  It  was  the  case  in  John 
the  Baptist’s  time.  It  is  the  case  in  our  time.  Today,  for  the 
most  part,  the  leaders  of  Christianity  have  gone  to  the  Devil. 
The  churches  are  the  destroyers  of  true  religion.  They  are  led 
by  men  who  are  secretly  in  alliance  with  the  old-time  foe  of 
God— Baal. 

I  need  not  tell  the  Masons  here  that  Tubal-Cain  is  the  pass¬ 
word  of  the  third  degree  of  the  Blue  Lodge,  the  sign  of  a 
Master  Mason.  That  of  the  Entered  Apprentice  is  Boaz; 
that  of  the  Fellow  Craft  is  Shibboleth;  and  of  the  Master 
Mason  is  Tubal-Cain.  Tubal-Cain  represents  the  third,  and 
the  highest  form,  in  one  sense,  of  Masonry;  for  all  the  other 
degrees  are  simply  built  upon  the  foundations  of  the  Blue 
Lodge. 

THOU  (METHODIST),  BAAL,  CAIN. 

This  fight  is  with  Cain  and  Baal,  the  twin  spirits.  The  one 
was  a  murderer  from  the  beginning,  Cain,  and  the  other  was 
the  Devil,  who  made  him  what  he  was. 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  6q 

Baal-Cain!  Take  it,  Master  Masons;  take  it  to  your  hearts 
— Baal-Cain. 

Tn ,  thou;  Baal-Cain ,  Devil. 

You  are  a  Master  when  you  get  that  sign.  You  have  the 
“Mark”  of  the  Beast. 

The  conflict  has  not  changed  any.  Baal  still,  Cain  still. 
The  murderous  spirit  still  exists  in  those  who  have  become  the 
servants  of  Baal. 

Baal  is  simply  a  name  which  is  applied  in  many  ways. 
Baal-Peor,  for  instance,  would  mean  “the  lord  of  the  opening,” 
the  Devil  of  the  opening;  and  every  one  of  these  forms  of  Baal 
has  a  similar  signification. 

The  great  sign  of  the  cross  of  the  highest  Mason,  the  Thrice 
Illustrious  Order  of  the  Cross,  as  it  is  said,  one  of  the  highest 
degrees  in  Masonry,  has  for  its  word  Baal-sha-lisha.  When 
the  candidate  comes  in  he  is  asked,  What  is  thy  sign?  He 
draws  his  finger  twice  across  the  palm  of  his  hand,  making  the 
cross,  commonly  called  the  St.  Andrew’s  cross.  That  is  his 
sign. 

What  are  the  words?  I.  H.  S.  That  does  not  mean,  in 
Masonic  language,  Iesus  Hominnm  Salvator ,  Jesus  Saviour  of 
men;  for  the  so-called  Most  Worthy  Provost — most  worthy 
devil — on  that  occasion  asks  this  candidate  what  these  letters 
mean.  The  answer  comes:  “I,  Baal;  H,  Sha ;  S,  Lisha,  the 
Lord  of  the  Three.”  This  is  the  form  of  Baal-worship  which 
is  represented  by  the  cross  in  all  forms  of  Masonry.  It  is  not 
the  cross  of  Jesus. 

This  word  Baal,  throughout  the  Scripture,  is  attached  to  a 
great  many  things.  For  instance,  Baal-zebub  means  the  god 
of  flies,  and  is  connected  with  corruption.  Baal-Berith  would 
mean  the  lord  of  the  Covenant,  and  that  is  connected  with  the 
oaths  and  covenants  which  Masons  make  in  all  the  degrees — 
covenants  with  death  and  agreements  with  hell. 

TERRIBLE  EXTENT  OF  THE  APOSTASY  OF  BAAL-WORSHIP. 

This  form  of  worship  2800  years  ago  in  Israel  had  com¬ 
pletely  destroyed,  so  far  as  man  could  see,  every  vestige  of  the 
worship  of  the  true  God.  Two  thousand  eight  hundred  years 
ago  in  Canaan,  in  the  Holy  Land,  amid  the  ten  tribes  of  Israel 
in  Samaria,  the  capital,  and  throughout  the  whole  kingdom  of 
Israel,  there  was  not  one  prophet,  and  there  was  not  one  priest, 
save  Klijah,  known  to  be  a  worshiper  and  a  teacher  of  the 
religion  of  the  true  God.  It  was  not  true,  as  Elijah  said,  that 
he  was  left  alone;  for  God  said  there  were  7000  who  had  not 
bowed  the  knee  to  Baal;  but  they  must  have  been  the  “good 
Methodists”  of  that  time.  Cowards! 

That  is  what  the  good  Methodists  are.  They  are  cowards 
to  the  very  center  of  their  hearts,  and  if  they  do  not  take  care, 


70  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

they  will  go  where  all  cowards  go:  they  lead  the  procession  to 
hell. 

I  never  knew  a  coward  yet  who  did  not  become  a  liar. 

Elijah  had  a  right  to  complain  of  these  7000  who  never 
bowed  the  knee  to  Baal  who  were  not  Freemasons,  but,  when 
they  stood  for  God,  never  stood  beside  him.  I  have  a  right  to 
complain  of  the  good  Methodists  in  the  Methodist  Church  who 
say  that  they  sympathize  with  me  and  still  remain  in  that 
apostate  Church.  I  have  a  right  to  complain,  and  I  do  com¬ 
plain.  I  complain  of  every  Christian  who  is  connected  with 
organizations  which  have  any  association  with  secrecy  what¬ 
ever.  I  say  far  and  wide  as  this  Voice  can  reach  throughout 
the  earth,  “You  are  a  coward  for  staying  there,  and  you  will 
share  the  doom  of  the  coward.  You  will  be  swept  with  them 
into  the  Lake  of  Fire.” 

THE  DOOM  OF  A  COWARD. 

What  for?  For  being  fearful,  afraid  to  leave  your  Church 
because  of  your  mother,  because  of  your  father,  because  of  the 
property  you  may  lose;  because  of  the  friendships  you  may 
lose;  because  of  the  pleasant  associations  you  may  lose.  You 
are  a  coward,  and  you  will  share  the  damnation  of  hell. 

Peter  was  a  coward,  and  it  took  him  to  the  brink  of  hell. 
He  denied  his  Master  once,  twice,  thrice,  until  with  oaths  and 
curses  he  said  he  never  knew  Him.  Well  nigh  had  Satan  sifted 
him  as  wheat. 

Where  were  these  7000  who  had  not  bowed  the  knee  to 
Baal? 

Some  of  them  were  like  Obadiah,  they  were  eating  the  bread 
of  Ahab  and  of  Jezebel.  But  for  the  mercy  of  God  they  would 
have  shared  their  doom.  Many  of  them  did,  no  doubt.  In 
that  day  you  can  see  how  a  whole  people  went  astray.  It 
amazes  one.  The  cowards  are  responsible  for  most  of  the 
degeneracy  of  the  time  in  the  churches. 

How  did  it  happen?  It  was  only  a  very  short  period  from 
the  Songs  of  Solomon  and  the  Psalms  of  David  to  the  chants 
of  the  priests  of  Baal.  Very  short  was  the  period  indeed, 
because  when  Saul  was  made  king  it  was,  perhaps,  about  the 
period  of  1090  B.  C.;  but  when  this  happened  it  was  about  910 
B.  C.,  I  think.  Only  one  hundred  and  eighty  years  had  passed, 
thereabout,  between  David  singing  the  songs  of  Jehovah, 
Solomon  erecting  the  Temple,  and  the  whole  nation  gone  to 
the  Devil;  all  in  a  hundred  and  eighty  years! 

A  NATION  REAPS  THE  SHAME  OF  A  KING’S  SECRET  SINS. 

Why  was  this?  I  will  tell  you  why.  When  a  king  becomes 
a  polygamous  beast,  when  a  king  becomes  what  David  became, 
a  monster  of  iniquity  who  stole  his  own  valiant  soldier  Uriah’s 
wife,  Bath-Sheba,  and  murdered  Uriah  in  order  to  retain  her,  it 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY,  7  ^ 

is  not  to  be  wondered  at  that  Bath-Sheba  bore  a  Solomon  who 
should  be  the  wisest  and  best,  the  foolishest  and  the  worst  of 
men.  He  became  a  man  renowned  for  wisdom  and  endowed 
with  power,  whom  God  entrusted  to  build  His  own  Temple. 
But  before  the  end  of  his  life  he  had  become  an  apostate  de\  il, 
had  gone  after  Baal  and  Ashtoreth,  had  married  hundreds  of 
wives  and  had  hundreds  of  concubines;  seven  hundred  of  the 
one  and  three  hundred  of  the  other.  He  became  a  worshiper 
of  the  filthy  gods  of  the  Moabites,  and  the  Ammonites  and  the 
Egyptians,  and  caused  his  offspring  to  pass  through  the  fiie  to 
Moloch,  the  dirty  dog!  Fouler  than  the  foulest  Fowler  even 
in  the  Methodist  Church,  he  went  down  to  the  foulest  of  sin  by 
being  the  offspring  of  a  king  who  had  gone  to  the  Devil. 

Do  you  think  that  you  can  go  to  the  Devil  and  not  reap 

what  you  sow?  ,  ,  „  ,  c 

A  nation  will  reap  the  shame,  but  for  the  mercy  of  God,  ot 

your  secret  sins.  .  £  ,  • 

Elijah  was  face  to  face  with  a  descendant  of  a  line  or  kings 

who  in  less  than  a  century  from  Jeroboam’s  were 

choosing  wives  as  Ahab  chose  his,  from  amongst  the  children 

of  Baal,  the  daughters  of  Ashtoreth. 

I  desire  you  to  study  a  little.  I  want  you  to  think  what  this 
Baal-worship  in  all  ages  has  been.  I  want  you  to  know  what 
the  Masons  themselves  say  it  is. 

MASONIC  RELIGION  IS  THE  WORSHIP  OF  THE  LAWS  OF  NATURE 

AND  REVENGE. 

Masons,  the  veil  has  gone.  Your  most  secret  sins  are  open. 
You  have  said,  and  it  is  true,  that  your  religion  in  Masonry  is 
older  than  Christianity.  It  is.  It  is  as  old  as  the  De\  1  . 
(Laughter.)  You  say  it  is  the  lex  nature.  You  are  right.  It 
is  also  the  lex  talionis.  It  is  the  Law  of  Nature,  and  it  is  the 
Law  of  Revenge.  You  know  it.  It  is  the  Law  of  the 

You  are  in  your  text  books  face  to  face  with  the  facts,  well 
known  to  us,  that  Christianity  is  cast  aside,  and  that  Nature, 
the  mere  worship  of  fecundity  in  the  sun  and  in  the  moon,  takes 
its  place.  I  shall  show  you  on  Tuesday  night  that  a  very  impor¬ 
tant  part  of  the  worship  of  the  Mystic  Shriner  is  connected 
with  the  moon,  with  lima,  the  moon.  I  always  thought  they 
were  “ lunatics.”  I  know  it  now.  (Laughter  and  applause.) 
The  sun,  the  moon  and  the  stars  are  the  objects  of  veneration 

and  worship  to  the  Freemason.  r  .  ,  ,  , 

He  who  speaks  to  you  today  is  face  to  face,  with  an  old- 
time  conflict.  There  is  no  difference  except  the  circumstances ; 
the  fact  that  we  have  telegraphs,  telephones,  railways,  and 
other  inventions.  Have  they  ever  comforted  your  heart  when 
you  were  sick  with  sorrow?  Oh  yes,  if  you  could  only  get  a 


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ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


prayer  along  them  to  Zion;  but  in  themselves  there  is  no  com¬ 
fort. 

Control  of  the  hidden  powers,  the  glorious  powers,  of  nature, 
will  never  comfort  an  immortal  spirit. 

The  spirit  of  man  and  the  flesh  of  man  are  crying  out  for 
something  more  than  material  things.  They  are  crying  out  for 
a  Living  God. 

What  are  you  offering? 

Come,  priests  of  Baal,  what  are  you  offering?  Come,  you 
wretched  Methodists,  what  are  you  offering? 

“Oh,  Doctor,  we  offer  them  the  same  Bible  that  you  do. 
We  offer  them  the  same  Gospel  that  you  do.  We  offer  them 
the  Gospel  of  John  Wesley,  Charles  Wesley,  of  the  heroic  men 
of  the  Methodist  Church.  We  teach  them  repentance,  faith, 
obedience,  holiness.  We  teach  the  same  things.  You  are 
denouncing  your  friends,  your  brethren.” 

Friends,  the  Devil  is  never  so  clever  as  when  he  is  preach¬ 
ing  the  Gospel ;  never  so  clever  as  when  he  appears  as  an  angel 
of  light;  never  so  clever  as  when  a  Methodist  Bishop  who  has 
taken  the  thirty-third  degree  is  offering  Christ  everywhere  for 
everything,  with  his  tongue  in  his  cheek,  knowing  that  he  has 
become  an  officer  of  the  kingdom  of  darkness,  and  that  while 
he  is  preaching  the  Gospel  of  Christ,  it  is  simply  as  a  cloak  for 
his  infernal  villainy  and  apostasy. 

THE  METHODIST  PREACHES  AND  TEACHES  TRUTH,  BUT  DOES 

NOT  LIVE  IT. 

He  is  like  the  Pharisees  of  Christ’s  time,  who  were  so 
orthodox  in  their  preaching  that  Jesus  said: 

The  scribes  and  the  Pharisees  sit  on  Moses’  seat :  all  things  therefore 
whatsoever  they  bid  you,  these  do  and  observe:  but  do  not  ye  after  their 
works;  for  they  say  and  do  not. 

That  is  exactly  what  the  Methodist  Church  is  doing  today. 
They  are  teaching  the  truth  and  living  a  lie.  They  are  teach¬ 
ing  Christianity,  and  they  have  sold  it  in  the  shambles.  They 
are  getting  the  price  of  it  from  retail  consumers. 

That  is  a  serious  charge. 

Let  me  prove  it  to  you. 

hirst,  I  defy  every  one  of  them  who  is  a  Mason  to  deny 
that  the  Name  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the  Son  of  God,  is 
absolutely  forbidden  in  the  fundamental  degrees  of  Masonry, 
and  that  in  the  final  degrees,  not  only  is  that  forbidden,  but  all 
religion  of  every  kind  is  denounced. 

Seventy-four  years  ago  there  was  a  great  fight  in  this 
country. 

That  figure  which  I  showed  to  you  in  Saturday  week’s 
Leaves  of  Healing,  standing  there  in  the  boat  upon  the 
Niagara  River,  with  his  hands  bound,  and  his  mouth  gagged, 
and  a  rope  around  his  waist,  heavy  weights  on  the  boat  at  his 


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side,  and  that  saloonkeeper  who  threw  him  into  the  river,  push- 
ing  him  over,  according  to  his  own  confession — that  figure 
cries  out,  and  still  cries  out,  to  God  for  vengeance. 

Ellen  Slade,  murdered  in  Belvidere,  Illinois,  by  Samuel  L. 
Keith,  a  Freemason,  and  Dr.  Woodward,  a  doctor — that  girl’s 
blood  cries  out  for  vengeance  today.  A/Coroner’s  Jury  found 
that  Keith  had  seduced  her  and  defiled  her,  and  that  Keith  by 
abortion  had  murdered  her.  Judge  Whitney  himself,  the  Wor¬ 
shipful  Master  of  that  Belvidere  Lodge,  denounced  the  mur¬ 
derer,  but  found  that  his  own  fellow-Masons  were  shielding  the 
murderer  and  preventing  justice  being  executed. 

These  crimes,  and  thousands  of  which  we  do  not  know  the 
particulars,  are  crying  out. 

Not  a  paper  in  Chicago  would  publish  Judge  Whitney’s 
words  when  he  answered  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  when 
they  challenged  him  for  unmasonic  conduct  in  bringing  a  Mason 
to  justice  for  murder. 


HOW  MASONRY  WAS  EXPOSED. 


3 


Seventy-four  years  ago  there  was  a  strong  reaction  against 
Masonry.  Fifteen  hundred  to  2000  lodges  surrendered  their 
charters,  and  every  decent  man  in  America  who  was  a  Mason 
went  out  of  Masonry.  I  am  sure  today,  that  when  the  real 
character  of  Masonry  is  known  every  decent  woman  will  aid 
me  in  compelling  every  half-decent  man  to  get  out  of  that 
infernal  lodge.  (Applause.) 

Elder  Bernard,  with  ex-President  of  the  United  States  John 
Quincy  Adams,  prepared  with  others  this  book  called  “Light 
on  Masonry.”  Something  like  forty-eight  degrees  were  at  that 
time  reduced  to  writing  by  the  Masons  who  renounced  Free¬ 
masonry.  These  degrees  remain  the  same.  In  some  respects 
they  are  worse. 

I  charge  the  Masonic  body,  the  Methodist  Church  espe¬ 
cially,  that  they  are  worshiping  this  same  Baal,  and  on  next 
Tuesday  night  I  shall  prove  that  from  this  and  other  volumes 
which  contain  authentic  exposures  of  the  whole  of  the  work  of 
these  degrees,  covered  by  affidavits  before  notaries,  by  men  of 
indisputable  character  and  of  holy  life. 

I  have  already  shown  you  that  Baal-worship  is  the  worship 
of  the  sun-god. 

In  darkness  at  the  feet  of  the  Worshipful  Master,  so-called, 
the  Entered  Apprentice  candidate  says  that  he  comes  for 
Masonic  regeneration.  In  the  East  he  bows;  to  the  South  he 
wanders,  and  to  the  West.  He  repeats  his  vows,  in  which  the 
Name  of  Jesus  Christ  never  enters.  In  quotations  from  the 
Bible  that  Name  is  cut  out.  When  he  passes  into  Fellow  Craft 
and  into  Master  Masonry,  it  is  the  same.  In  Knight  Templary, 
he  nominally  uses  the  Name  of  Jesus,  but  by  and  by,  as  he  gets 


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into  the  higher  degrees,  he  is  told  that  that  has  been  simply  a 
word  given  to  him  to  mislead,  and  that  now  he  is,  in  the  last 
degrees  of  Freemasonry,  to  understand 

THE  REAL  NATURE  OF  THE  MASONIC  CROSS. 

Let  me  show  it  to  you. 

On  page  199  of  this  remarkable  volume,  “Bernard’s  Light 
on  Masonry,”  the  statement  is  made  that  the  Knight  of  the 
Thrice  Illustrious  Order  of  the  Cross  becomes  a  Minister  of 
Masonic  vengeance,  to  “bring  to  condign  punishment  agree¬ 
ably  to  the  usages  of  our  ancient  fraternity”  the  man  who 
would  give  away  its  secrets,  declaring  the  penalty  to  be  by  a 
spear  thrust  into  his  left  side,  bearing  testimony  even  in 
death  of  the  power  and  justice  of  the  mark  of  the  holy 
cross. 

In  this  order  this  man  swears  he  will  become  a  minister  of 
Masonic  vengeance,  and  passes  quickly  then  into  the  degree 
above — the  Knights  Adept  of  the  Eagle,  or  Sun,  in  which  he 
says  he  has  now  come  to  be  “divested  of  original  sin,  and 
destroy  the  juvenile  prejudices  of  error.” 

Father  Adam  instructs  him.  Father  Adam — yes,  that  is 
true,  and  it  is  the  old  Adam.  On  page  265  it  is  stated  that  one 
representing  Father  Adam  says  that  “everything  in  this  world 
exists  according  to  God’s  will;  consequently  everything  in  the 
world  is  just  as  it  ought  to  be.” 

Do  you  not  see  the  affinity  between  this  and  the  worst  form 
of  Spiritualism? 

Do  you  not  see  the  affinity  between  this  and  the  diabolical 
system  of  so-called  Christian  Science? 

They  each  and  all  teach  that  evil  does  not  exist. 

He  goes  on  to  say  that  the  distance  between  good  and  evil 
is  only  a  fanciful  one: 

The  distance  between  good  and  evil  with  the  Divinity  cannot  be  more 
justly  and  clearly  compared  than  by  a  circle  formed  with  a  compass;  from 
the  points  being  reunited  there  is  formed  an  entire  circumference;  and 
when  any  point  in  particular  equally  approaches  or  equally  separates  from 
its  point,  it  is  only  a  faint  resemblance  of  the  distance  between  good  and 
evil,  which  we  compare  by  the  points  of  a  compass  forming  a  circle,  which 
circle  when  co77ipleted  is  God! 

Is  that  our  Father  in  heaven? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  that  Jesus  Christ? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Is  that  the  Holy  Ghost? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  good  and  evil  exist  in  God? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — What  God  is  this?  Is  it  not  Baal? 

Audience — “  Yes.” 


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Dr.  Dowie — After  this  teaching-,  on  page  270,  the  candidate 


is  told: 


MASONRY  A  FOE  TO  ALL  RELIGION. 


Now  my  brother,  behold  what  you  must  fight  against  and  destroy, 
before  you  can  come  to  the  knowledge  of  the  true  good  and  sovereign  hap- 
niness  Behold  this  monster  which  you  must  conquer— a  serpent  which  W  L 
detest  as  an  idol  that  is  adored  by  the  idiot  and  vulgar  under  the  name  of 
RELIGION!  !  !  You  must  cast  it  forever  aside. 

There,  you  Masonic-Methodist  devils,  there  is  your  system. 
Not  only'do  you  deny  Christ,  but  when  you  get  to  the  end,  you 

deny  all  religion.  ,  _  ,.  iU. 

You  are  not  only  to  do  this,  but  listen!  According  to  this 
degree  of  the  Adepts  of  the  Eagle,  or  Sun— I  scarcely  like  to 

read  it,  but  I  will  read  it.  Page  276. 

He  vows  that  he  will  submit  to  have  his  tongue  thrust 
through  with  a  red  hot  iron;  his  eyes  plucked  out;  to  be 
deprived  of  smelling  and  hearing;  to  have  both  his  hands  cut 
off;  and  to  be  exposed  in  that  condition  to  be  devoured  by 
voracious  animals,  if  he  should  prove  a  traitor.  This  ungodly 
vow  and  covenant  with  death  he  is  told  that  he  must  make. 
“He  then  sits  down  with  the  rest  of  the  brethren,  and  then 
brother  Truth  gives  the  following  explanation  of  the  Philosoph¬ 
ical  Lodge.” 

I  am  not  going  to  take  all  that  in  this  afternoon,  but  I  am 
simply  going  to  take  one  point.  Then  I  ha\  e  something  \ei\ 

practical  to  say  to  the  Methodists. 

This  degree  affirms  that:  “The  Sun  represents  the  unity 
of  the  Eternal  Supreme,  the  only  grand  work  of  philoso¬ 


phy*”  , 

You  are  to  understand  that  the  conception  is  in  the 
moon. 

Conception  in  the  Moon.— The  conception  or  woman  rising  in  the  moon, 
demonstrates  the  purity  that  matter  subsists  of,  in  order  to  remain  m  its 
nure  state  unmixed  with  any  other  body,  from  which  must  come  a  new 
king,  and  a  revolution  or  fulness  of  time,  filled  with  glory,  whose  name  is 

Albra-est. 

This  degree  teaches  that  there  is  an  impending  revolution, 
and  that  through  the  power  of  the  moon  this  conception  is  to 
be  brought  out — I  should  say  in  a  lunatic  asylum.  .  (Laughter.) 
But  it  is  a  very  serious  matter  when  the  lunatics  number  a 
million,  as  they  do  among  Freemasons,  and  when  they  aspire 

to  a  worldwide  dominion.  ...  ~  , 

Methodist-Masons!  I  confront  you  as  Elijah  did  at  Carmel 
with  this  mocking  cry:  “Pray  louder!  Pray  louder!  Your 
god  must  be  asleep.  Perhaps  he  is  hunting.  _ 

Masons,  Methodists,  let  me  call  your  attention  to.  this  tact: 
I  first  of  all  reproved  you  for  this  on  the  Pacific  Coast  in  1888. 
You  closed  your  churches  against  my  missions.  You  sent  your 
Presiding  Elders  up  and  down  the  coast  to  lie  about  me,  prin- 


76  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

cipal  among  them  F.  D.  Bovard,  who  is  now  one  of  your  num¬ 
ber  in  this  city.  I  reproved  you.  I  reproved  Bishop  Fowler. 
It  is  all  in  print,  in  The  Second  Year's  Harvest.  I  told  him  that 
if  he  were  a  true  Bishop  of  the  Church  of  God,  he  would  disci¬ 
pline  the  liars,  whom  even  some  ministers  of  the  Pacific  Coast 
refused  to  allow  to  administer  the  sacraments  because  they 
were  liars,  and  very  wicked  men.  In  one  case  a  Methodist 
minister  had  married  his  brother’s  widow  and  had  beaten  her 
children  cruelly  with  the  buckles  of  a  harness  until  their 
bodies  were  bleeding.  He  had  smashed  that  gentle  lady’s 
face,  Mrs.  Dowie  knows,  until  it  was  all  covered  over  with 
bruises. 

I  told  the  Masonic  Bishop  Fowler  that  he  was  a  Bishop  of 
the  Devil  if  he  did  not  do  his  duty.  He  made  that  vile  man  a 
Presiding  Elder. 

A  WARNING  AND  A  PROPHECY;  THE  PROPHECY  FULFILLED. 

I  began  to  warn  the  Methodist  Church.  As  time  went  on 
my  warnings  grew  more  numerous,  and  at  last  in  1896  I  opened 
in  full  power  on  this  matter  upon  the  Methodist  Church.  I 
said  from  the  Auditorium  platform,  what  is  on  record  in 
Leaves  of  Healing,  that  the  time  had  come  for  God  to  set 
aside  the  Methodist  Church  forever;  for  it  would  not  be 
reformed,  and  it  must  be  destroyed. 

I  said  that  from  that  time  there  would  be  no  answer  to  their 
prayers. 

I  will  call  you  to  witness. 

What  do  your  statistics  show  for  the  years  1897,  1898 
and  1899?  I  have  shown  you  from  your  own  books.  I 
have  Dr.  Carroll’s  article  in  the  New  York  Christian  Advo¬ 
cate,  edited  by  Dr.  Buckley,  who  is  now  a  member  of  this 
Conference. 

Last  year  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  confesses  that  it 
lost  nearly  24,000  members  from  the  number  with  which  it  began 
the  year.  In  addition,  it  lost  all  that  came  into  it.  It  lost 
probably  more  than  277,000  members  and  probationers  in 
1899.  y 

Let  me  point  out  what  this  means. 

The  previous  year  you  had  a  loss.  What  does  it  mean?  I 
will  tell  you  what  it  means. 

The  tables  which  I  have  before  me  in  this  issue  of  the 
New  York  Christian  Advocate,  March  15,  1900,  not  two  months 
ago,  say  that  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  North  has 
2,600,000  members. 

I  shall  suppose  that  you  have  only  two  and  one-half  mil¬ 
lions,  to  make  it  easier  reckoning.  You  tell  us,  ye  Bishops  of 
this  Church  and  this  Conference,  that  you  have  a  God,  and  He 
is  the  same  God  as  the  God  of  John  Wesley. 


ZION '  S  CON  FLIC  T  WITH  ME  THODIS  T  A  POS  TA  SY.  77 

I  deny  it.  I  say,  “Ye  are  of  your  father  the  Devil” — 
Mah-hah-bone. 

GOD  NO  LONGER  ANSWERS  THE  METHODISTS  BY  THE  FIRE  OF 

THE  HOLY  SPIRIT. 

He  used  to  answer  by  fire  in  Wesley’s  time,  did  He  not? 

Voices — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Does  He  answer  you  Methodists  by  fire  now? 

Voices — “  No.” 

A  Voice — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  I  hear  one  of  you  say  Yes? 

A  Voice — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — I  will  thrust  that  lie  down  vour  throat.  Here 
is  the  fact.  How  does  He  answer  by  fire.  Two  millions  and 
a  half  of  you  prayed  for  the  extension  of  His  Kingdom  in  the 
Methodist  Church  last  year,  didn’t  you? 

Voice — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — You  prayed  twice  a  day,  didn’t  you? 

Voice — “More.”  ( This  came  from  a  Methodist  minister  from 
Wisconsin. ) 

Dr.  Dowie — All  right,  you  say  more.  That  was  five  millions 
of  prayers  a  day,  wasn’t  it? 

Voice — “I  don’t  know  whether  they  all  prayed.” 

Dr.  Dowie— Oh  well,  you  said  they  prayed,  just  now. 

Voice — “  I  did.” 

Dr.  Dowie— If  they  do  not  pray,  they  are  hypocrites.  That 
is  what  I  believe  they  are,  and  you  too.  (Applause  and 
laughter.)  You  clearly  see  now  where  I  am  leading  you. 

I  am  glad  to  have  you  priests  of  Baal  here.  (Applause.) 
Pray  louder!  Pray  longer!  Pray  more,  and  the  more  you  pray, 
the  more  your  people  are  damned.  Five  millions  of  prayers  a 
day  at  least,  by  the  laity  and  clergy;  add  another  million  for  the 
prayers  of  the  services,  by  elders,  deacons,  class  leaders  and 
exhausters  generally.  (Laughter.)  That  makes  6,000,000 
prayers  a  day.  Three  hundred  and  sixty-five  days  in  a  year 
makes  over  two  thousand  million  of  prayers  last  year,  and  the 
more  you  prayed,  the  more  you  lost.  (Applause.)  The  more 
you  preached,  the  more  you  lost.  Think  of  it,  2,190,000,000 
prayers  to  God  which  were  rejected,  or  to  Mah-hah-bone !  The 
more  you  agonized  and  cut  yourselves  and  said,  “Oh  God,  hear 
us,  for  Dr.  Dowie  will  mock  us  if  you  do  not,”  the  more  you 
lost.  (Laughter  and  applause.)  In  the  “Address  of  the 
Bishops”  read  at  the  opening  of  your  General  Conference  in 
1896,  the  Appeal  was  made  to  all  the  Church  with  reference  to 
the  four  years  then  lying  before  you: 

When  the  next  General  Conference  shall  meet  we  shall  be  entering  the 
portals  of  the  Twentieth  Century.  We  desire  to  close  these  nineteen  centu¬ 
ries  of  work  for  the  race  in  a  manner  helpful  to  men  and  satisfactory  to  our 
Lord.  There  is  nowhere  any  greater  privilege.  The  serious  responsibility 


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is  as  great  as  the  privilege  is  glorious.  We  recall  the  solemn  admonition 
imder  which  many  of  us  were  ordained:  “If  it  shall  happen  that  the 
Church  or  any  member  thereof  do  take  any  hurt  or  hindrance  by  reason  of 
your  negligence,  ye  know  the  greatness  of  the  fault  and  also  the  fearful 
punishment  that  will  ensue.”  We  beseech  you,  therefore,  first  of  all  that 
you  join  us  in  a  most  earnest  endeavor  to  secure  a  personal  fitness  to  be  a 
proper  medium  in  this  Conference,  through  which  God  can  express  His 
will  concerning  the  churches;  that,  laying  aside  all  unworthy  ambitions,  we 
shall  sincerely  seek  to  know  the  mind  of  the  Spirit,  realizing  that  any 
personal  advantage  that  is  not  for  the  good  of  the  Church  is  for  the  damage 
of  the  individual. 

•  ••••••••• 

God’s  thoughts  and  plans  for  His  Church  are  as  high  above  ours  as  the 
heavens  are  above  the  earth.  His  Scriptures  are  full  of  promises.  His 
skies  are  full  of  Pentecosts.  “Ask  what  ye  will  and  it  shall  be  done  unto 
you,”  is  the  limitless  Divine  promise.  Heaven  and  earth  are  put  in  pledge 
for  fulfilment.  (Read  by  Bishop  Warren,  May  2,  1896.) 

Ha!  ha!  Ye  wretches,  how  did  ye  respond  to  these  words 
read  by  Bishop  Warren? 

Oh,  how  you  did  howl,  and  scream,  and  try  all  sorts  of 
schemes  from  the  “boy  preacher”  (of  about  45),  to  oyster 
suppers,  and  kinetescopes  of  prize  fights.  But  all  in  vain. 
God’s  skies  were  not  “full  of  Pentecosts,”  and  the  Bishops  lied 
when  they  said,  “Heaven  and  earth  are  put  in  pledge  for  ful¬ 
filment.”  You  could  not  pawn  God’s  Promises  in  Baal’s 
Pawnshop,  and  “heaven  and  earth”  were  deaf  to  your  four 
years  of  bowlings.  You  came  out  at  the  end  with  the  road 
paved  with  the  dead,  and  your  avowals  of  disgrace  and  defeat 
and  despair  are  the  proofs  of  God’s  anger  and  of  His  refusal 
to  hear  and  answer  your  prayers. 

You  got  up  revivals.  You  got  them  up  here  in  Dr.  McIn¬ 
tyre’s  Church.  He  rides  a  goat,  and  tells  us  he  does.  He 
is  a  Freemason  and  a  liar,  as  they  all  are  who  are  Freemasons, 
when  they  say  that  Masonry  helps  the  Church.  Shame!  that 
they  should  lie  and  say  that  Masonry  helps  the  Church. 

HOW  GOD  HAS  ANSWERED  ZION’S  PRAYERS  BY  FIRE. 

Cry  louder!  There  is  no  voice,  there  is  no  answer.  Your 
leaders  have  taken  you  to  the  Devil,  and  if  you  still  continue 
to  go  with  them,  you  will  find  your  place  where  the  worshipers 
of  Baal  found  it  long  ago.  You  will  be  cut  to  pieces  at  Kishon. 

We  are  now  face  to  face.  While  they  have  not  added  to 
their  numbers  any,  we  have  taken  out  of  Methodism  thousands 
and  ten  of  thousands  who  are  now  in  Zion,  thank  God. 
(Amen.) 

We  have  taken  out  of  all  the  apostate  churches,  and  we 
have  taken  from  the  streets  and  lanes,  from  the  slums,  from 
the  saloons,  from  the  houses  of  shame,  and  from  all  classes  of 
the  community,  rich  and  poor,  thousands,  tens  of  thousands. 

Four  years  ago  February  22,  1896,  when  I  uttered  that  warn¬ 
ing  against  Masonic-Methodism,  and  said  that  I  should  start 
from  that  time  to  fight  it  and  destroy  it,  Zion  had  450  members. 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  79 

As  nearly  as  I  can  reckon  by  a  conservative  estimate,  she 
has  today  more  than  50,000  members,  thank  God.  (Applause.) 

There  is  scarcely  a  land  beneath  the  sun  in  which  Zion  is 
not  planted.  They  who  mocked  are  mocking  no  more.  They 
know  that  they  do  not  know  how  to  retain  their  ecclesiastical 
organization. 

Zion  is  smashing  them  in  India.  Zion  is  smashing 
them  in  China.  Zion  is  smashing  them  in  Europe.  Zion 
is  smashing  them  in  Africa.  According  to  their  own  con¬ 
fession,  Zion  is  smashing  them  in  every  town  and  village  in 
America. 

The  contest  is  different  in  this  respect:  I  have  no  altar  on 
which  I  lay  a  bullock.  They  have  no  altar  on  which  they  lay 
a  bullock. 

I  point  to  the  Altar  of  the  Atoning  Sacrifice,  which  nineteen 
centuries  ago  was  wrought  for  man  in  Christ  the  Lamb  of 
God. 

I  point  to  the  Holy  Spirit,  who  came  with  Tongues  of  Fire 
at  Pentecost.  I  also  point  to  the  fact,  that  while  I  have  been 
mocking  the  Masonic  devils  in  all  the  churches,  and  especially 
in  the  Methodist,  God  has  been  answering  by  Fire  in  Zion. 
That  fire  is  burning  brightly  in  every  land  beneath  the  sun. 
(Applause.  Amen.) 

THE  DOOM  OF  APOSTASY.  * 

It  is  only  a  little  fire  here  and  there;  it  is  a  cloud  as  if  of  a 
man’s  hand  here  and  there,  but  it  is  spreading  over  the  land. 
As  I  go  up  to  this  Carmel  so  often  and  so  often,  it  will  not 
be  seven  years  before  the  blessed  rain  is  pouring  out  over  all 
the  earth. 

The  Fire  has  come  which  consumes  the  sacrifice.  The 
apostasy  will  be  marked  like  that  of  Greece  and  Rome,  like 
that  of  other  apostate  churches,  and  God’s  people  will  come 
out  of  her  as  they  did  when  Christ  brought  them  out  of  the 
Jewish  dispensation,  when  Elijah  brought  them  out  at  Mount 
Carmel. 

Baal-worship  will  continue  as  long  as  the  Devil  is  on  earth, 
as  long  as  there  are  apostate  hypocrite  Bishops,  Elders  and 
ministers  in  the  Churches. 

But  the  day  is  coming 

When  the  widows  of  Ashur  are  loud  in  their  wail, 

And  the  idols  are  broke  in  the  temples  of  Baal ; 

And  the  might  of  the  Gentile,  unsmote  by  the  sword, 

Hath  melted  like  snow  in  the  glance  of  the  Lord. 

Just  as  sure  as  the  God  in  Hezekiah’s  time  slew  in  one 
night  the  army  of  Senacherib  and  saved  His  people,  so  God 
will  slay  every  priest  of  Baal,  and  pull  down  every  temple  of 
Baal. 


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Hasten  it,  Lord  (Amen),  that  the  people  may  be  set  free. 
He  is  coming.  Do  not  think  the  fight  is  over.  It  is  a  longer 
fight  than  in  Elijah’s  time.  It  is  not  a  fight  on  one  mountain 
side,  but  this  fight  now  is  to  be  extended  to  every  land,  and 
on  thousands  of  mountain  sides. 

I  will  meet  you  wherever  your  Apostasy  extends,  and  Zion 
will  smash  your  Baal  altars  everywhere  in  the  Name  of  the 
Lord. 

I  will  meet  you  in  India  and  China  and  Africa  and  all  over 
Europe  and  Australia,  and  Zion  will  smash  you  there. 

We  shall  not  stop  either  with  you:  for  Zion  will  fight  the 
Apostasy  in  every  form  and  everywhere,  and  proclaim  a  Living 
God  to  dying  men,  and  a  Full  and  Free  Gospel. 

God,  who  knows  how  great  and  worldwide  is  the  fight 
against  these  world-rulers  of  this  darkness,  will  give  us  the 
grace  to  do  it,  and  will  bring  into  operation  a  Mighty 
Church. 

The  Christian  Catholic  Church  in  Zion  will  number  more  in 
five  years  than  all  the  Masons  on  earth  today.  (Applause.) 

All  who  stand  for  God,  and  all  who  believe  that  the 
worship  of  Baal  is  being  upheld  by  the  Methodist  Church, 
stand  to  your  feet.  ''With  some  exceptions  the  audience 
arose. 

PRAYER  OF  CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus’  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 
power  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit,  that 
I  may  do  right,  repenting,  confessing,  restoring  to  any  whom  I  may  have 
wronged,  doing  right  in  Thy  sight.  Give  me  power  to  abstain  from  every 
appearance  of  evil,  and  from  all  associations  which  are  evil,  from  all  apos¬ 
tasy,  for  Jesus’  sake.  Amen.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause, 
after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Did  you  mean  it? 

Audience — “  Yes.” 

The  services  were  closed  by  the  General  Overseer  pro¬ 
nouncing  the 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil,  and  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you, bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  Wll'll  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


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FIFTH  DISCOURSE. 


MIGHTIER,  more  destructive  and  more  terrible  are  becom¬ 
ing  the  fearless  blows  which  the  General  Overseer  is 
delivering  against  the  great  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
now  infected  throughout  by  the  deadly  corruptions  of  Free¬ 
masonry. 

Already  they  are  beginning  to  have  their  effect  and  that 
organization,  “cracked  through  and  through,”  is  seen  to  be 
crumbling. 

Thoughtful  men,  wearing  the  button  of  the  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  General  Conference,  throng  Central  Zion  Tabernacle 
at  every  service,  manifesting  the  keenest  interest  in  the  words 
of  the  man  of  God.  Many  of  them,  by  the  expression  of  their 
faces,  and  some  even  by  their  open  declarations,  make  known 
their  conviction  that  the  General  Overseer  is  right,  and  express 
their  sympathy  with  him  in  this  Conflict. 

On  Tuesday  evening,  May  15th,  the  General  Overseer  drew 
the  diabolical  veil  of  secrecy  from  the  foul,  filthy  and  mur¬ 
derous  rites  of  the  higher  degrees  of  Masonry  and  from  the 
Mystic  Shrine. 

The  arraignment  of  men  of  high  ecclesiastical  and  civil 
station  was  as  startling  as  it  was  sadly  true.  On  Thursday 
evening,  May  17th,  those  who  call  themselves  followers  of  Jesus 
and  yet  go  into  fellowship  with  “the  unfruitful  works  of  dark¬ 
ness  weie  shown  to  be  guilty  of  the  sin  of  Judas  Iscariot,  who 
betrayed  his  M^aster  with  a  kiss  and  sold  Him  to  His  enemies. 

On  Lord’s  Day  afternoon,  May  20th,  Central  Zion  Taber¬ 
nacle  was  crowded  to  within  very  few  of  its  fullest  capacity. 
Members  of  the  Methodist  General  Conference  were  present 
in  hundreds  and  heard  the  truth  about  the  once  glorious,  now 
apostate  and  fallen  Church  which  they  represented. 

The  Spirit  of  God  was  present  in  Power,  and  nearly  the 
whole  audience  of  about  3000  people  remained,  eagerly  and 
respectfully  attentive  throughout  the  entire  three  hours’ 


Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Tuesday  Evening,  May  15,  1900. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  the  congreation  singing  Hymn 
Number  425. 

Prayer  was  offered  by  Overseer  Mason. 

The  General  Overseer  then  read  from  the  twelfth  chanter 
of  St.  Luke.  V 


84  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

After  the  announcements  had  been  made  and  the  offering 
received,  the  following  address  was  delivered  by  the  General 
Overseer: 

DEGREES  OF  MASONIC  DEVILRY. 

INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accepta¬ 
ble  in  Thy  sight,  be  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom 
these  words  shall  come,  in  this  and  all  the  coming  time,  in  this  and  every 
land,  till  Jesus  come,  for  His  sake.  Amen. 

Jesus  said : 

TEXT. 

Beware  ye  of  the  leaven  of  the  Pharisees,  which  is  hypocrisy.  But 
there  is  nothing  covered  up,  that  shall  not  be  revealed:  and  hid,  that 
shall  not  be  known.  Wherefore  whatsoever  ye  have  said  in  the  darkness 
shall  be  heard  in  the  light;  and  what  ye  have  spoken  in  the  ear  in  the  inner 
chambers  shall  be  proclaimed  upon  the  housetops.  And  I  say  unto  you 
my  friends,  Be  not  afraid. 

In  the  third  chapter  of  the  Gospel  according  to  St.  John, 

Jesus  said  at  the  nineteenth  verse: 

And  this  is  the  judgment,  that  the  light  has  come  into  the  world,  and 
men  loved  the  darkness  rather  than  the  light;  for  their  works  are  evil. 
For  everv  one  that  doeth  ill  hateth  the  light,  and  cometh  not  to  the  light, 
lest  his  works  should  be  reproved.  But  he  that  doeth  the  truth  cometh  to 
the  light,  that  his  works  may  be  made  manifest,  that  they  have  been  wrought 
in  God. 

In  my  previous  addresses  I  have  taken  occasion  to  speak  of 
the  lesser  degrees  of  Masonry.  Tonight,  while  I  speak  upon 
the  other  degrees  of  devilry,  I  feel  that  I  am  somewhat  ham¬ 
pered,  not  from  want  of  material,  but  from  the  fact  that  the 
material  is  so  abundant  and  so  voluminous  that  it  is  almost 
impossible  to  satisfactorily  crowd  into  a  brief  lecture  the  many 
things  that  one  has  to  say. 

I  confess  to  you  that,  much  as  I  have  known  on  this  subject, 
I  have  not  been  prepared  for  the  shameful  candor  with  which  the 
principal  Masonic  writers  are  now  confessing  that  Masonry  has 
no  connection  with  Christianity;  that  it  is  connected  with  not 
only  Baal-worship,  but  with  the  foulest  forms  of  the  Phallic 
Mysteries. 

I  SHALL  DEAL  WITH  THE  SO-CALLED  HIGHEST  DEGREES. 

In  the  front  of  all  that  I  have  to  say,  I  shall  principally 
attend  to  those  degrees  which  Bernard  and  others  declare  are 
the  highest  in  Masonry.  Especially  shall  I  deal  with  that  of 
which  I  have  been  unutterably  ashamed  to  think  that  the  Presi¬ 
dent  of  the  United  States  should  be  a  member;  namely,  this 
foul  order  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  whose  ritual  I  hold  in  my  hand 
tonight. 

I  read  to  you  the  other  night  that  Robert  McIntyre,  Dr. 
Hirst,  and  a  number  of  leading  Methodist,  Baptist  and  Episco¬ 
pal  ministers  had  declared  that  Masonry  v/as  not  antagonistic 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  85 

to  Christianity,  but  was  helpful  to  the  Church  ;  that  they  were 
Masons  because  of  the  help  that  it  could  be  to  them  in  their 
Church  work.  I  branded  that  as  false,  and  said  that  they 
knew  it  to  be  false;  inasmuch  as  the  Name  of  Jesus  Christ 
is  not  once  mentioned  in  all  the  thirty-three  degrees’  of 
straight  Scottish  Rite  Masonry. 

There  is  no  place  where  they  quote  from  the  Bible  in  which 
Jesus’  Name  is  mentioned  as  the  Son  of  God.  When  they 
quote  the  Scripture,  it  is  rendered  meaningless  because  of  the 
Name  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  being  taken  out. 

I  start  tonight  with  some  startling  facts  concerning  this 
question  of  the  relation  of  Christianity  to  Freemasonry.  Now, 

I  am  not  quoting  from  antimasonic  books  when  I  quote  from 
this  one. 

I  WILL  QUOTE  FROM  THE  WRITINGS  OF  FREEMASONS. 

I  hold  in  my  hand  an  “Encyclopaedia  of  Freemasonry  and 
Its  Kindred  Sciences:  Comprising  the  Whole  Range  of  Arts, 
Sciences  and  Literature  as  Connected  with  the  Institution.  By 
Albert  G.  Mackey,  M.  D.” 

It  is  brought  down  to  date  by  Charles  T.  McClenachan, 
author  of  “The  Book  of  the  Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite  of 
Freemasonry,  Form  and  Ceremonies, ”  etc.  This  book  is 
printed  in  Philadelphia  by  Louis  H.  Everts,  and  is  the  edition 
of  1898.  It  is,  therefore,  a  most  recent  edition,  and  it  is 
accepted  by  Freemasons  as  among  their  highest  authorities, 
if  not  the  highest,  in  this  country,  for  Albert  G.  Mackey  held 
one  of  the  highest  offices  in  the  Masonic  Order. 

In  the  article  entitled  “Christianization  of  Freemasonry,” 
on  page  162,  Dr.  Mackey  has  these  words: 

HIGH  DEGREE  FREEMASON  CONTENDS  THAT  FREEMASONRY  IS 

NOT  CHRISTIAN. 

It  is  true  that  it  embraces  within  its  scheme  the  great  truths  of  Chris¬ 
tianity  upon  the  subject  of  the  immortality  of  the  soul  and  the  resurrection 
of  the  body;  but  this  was  to  be  presumed,  because  Freemasonry  is  truth, 
and  all  truth  must  be  identical.  But  the  origin  of  each  is  different;  their 
histories  are  dissimilar.  The  principles  of  Freemasonry  preceded  the 
advent  of  Christianity.  Its  symbols  and  its  legends  are  derived  from  the 
Solomonic  Temple  and  from  the  people  even  anterior  to  that.  Its  religion 
comes  from  the  ancient  priesthood ;  its  faith  was  that  primitive  one  of  Noah 
and  his  immediate  descendants.  If  Masonry  were  simply  a  Christian  insti¬ 
tution,  the  Jew  and  the  Moslem,  the  Brahman  and  the  Buddhist,  could  not 
conscientiously  partake  of  its  illumination.  But  its  universality  is  its  boast. 
In  its  language  citizens  of  every  nation  may  converse;  at  its  altar  men  of 
all  religions  may  kneel;  to  its  creed  disciples  of  every  faith  may  sub¬ 
scribe. 

The  Buddhist,  the  Brahman,  the  Moslem  and  the  Jew  who 
reject  Jesus  Christ  as  the  Son  of  God,  the  Saviour  of  the  world, 
the  only  Advocate  for  sinners,  and  the  King  of  Kings,  can  be 
Freemasons. 


86  ZION ' S  CONFLICT  WITH  ME  THODIS T  APOS TA S  Y. 

If  you  cannot  understand  the  significance  of  that,  you  can¬ 
not  reason  at  all.  What  is  this  “religion”  which  embraces  the 
foe  of  Christianity,  which  gives  comfort  to  the  impenitent  Jew, 
whose  fathers  shed  the  blood  of  the  Redeemer;  which  gives 
comfort  to  the  Mohammedan,  who  believes  that  he  is  doing  God’s 
service  when  he  imbrues  his  sword  in  the  blood  of  the  Christian 
today;  which  is  open  to  the  Brahman,  who  teaches  a  woman  to 
sacrifice  the  fruit  of  her  body  for  the  sin  of  her  soul,  and  throw 
her  child  into  the  Ganges  that  the  crocodile  may  eat  it,  who 
worships  these  horrid  divinities  of  India,  the  trinity  of  Brahma, 
Vishnu  and  Siva,  a  religion  which  makes  murder  a  part  of 
its  creed?  Siva  is  the  Destroyer. 

What  kind  of  a  religion  is  this  which  embraces  all  these? 

MASONRY  THE  UNIVERSAL  RELIGION  OF  THE  DEVIL. 

It  must  be  the  universal  religion  of  the  Devil.  I  think  you 
will  say  Amen  to  that.  (Amen.)  Any  religion  which  embraces 
and  counts  as  acceptable  to  God  these  murderous,  anti- 
christian,  unclean  and  abominable  systems  must  be  of  the 
Devil. 

I  will  now  show  you  how  daring  they  are  in  their  state¬ 
ments. 

With  a  good  deal  of  hesitation,  I  will  read  to  you  from  the 
article  on  the  Phallic  worship.  I  hate  to  do  it.  I  feel  ashamed 
to  do  it.  I  feel  that  it  is  degrading  that  in  this  age  and  time  I 
should  have  to  read  such  things  to  fight  this  Apostate  Masonic 
Church.  These  Masonic-Methodists  are  brethren  of  this 
Mackey.  They  unite  upon  these  principles,  brethren  of  the 
Universal  Church  of  the  Devil.  They  pretend  that  Siva  the 
Destroyer  and  Jesus  the  Saviour  both  find  a  harmonious  meet¬ 
ing  place  in  Masonry.  They  pretend  that  the  abominations  of 
Venus  and  Ashtoreth  are  in  harmony  with  the  Holy  Ghost. 
It  is  false:  and  they  are  betrayers  of  Christ  who  drag  Him 
into  such  fellowship. 

Any  one  who  knows  anything  of  ancient  history,  and  is 
even  moderately  read  in  ancient  Phoenician  literature  or  cus¬ 
toms  and  habits,  knows  that,  universally,  even  the  heathen 
writers  admit  that  the  Phallic  Mysteries  were  the  most  foul, 
filthy  and  degrading,  brutalizing  and  murderous  of  all  the 
ancient  mysteries.  There  were  none  worse. 

What  does  Dr.  Mackey,  this  leader  of  Masonry,  who  tells 
you  boldly  that  Masonry  is  allied  with  all  these  systems,  say 
of  Phallic  worship?  He  says: 

FREEMASONRY  CONTENDS  FOR  THE  PURITY  OF  PHALLIC  WORSHIP. 

The  Phallus  was  a  sculptured  representation  of  the  membrum  virile , 
or  male  organ  of  generation ;  and  the  worship  of  it  is  said  to  have  originated 
in  Egypt,  where,  after  the  murder  of  Osiris  by  Typhon,  which  is  symbol¬ 
ically  to  be  explained  as  the  destruction  or  deprivation  of  the  sun’s  light  by 
night,  Isis,  his  wife,  or  the  symbol  of  nature,  in  the  search  for  his  mutilated 


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body,  is  said  to  have  found  all  the  parts  except  the  organs  of  generation, 
which  myth  is  simply  symbolic  of  the  fact  that  the  sun  having  set,  its 
fecundating  and  invigorating  power  had  ceased.  The  Phallus,  therefore,  as 
the  symbol  of  the  male  generative  principle,  was  very  universally  venerated 
among  the  ancients,  and  that  too  as  a  religious  rite. 

This  is  the  symbol  which  is  represented,  he  says,  in  Free¬ 
masonry  by  the  “ point  within  the  circle .” 

Look  upon  the  aprons  hanging  up  there  on  the  walls  of  this 
Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  which  Masons  have  given  up,  and 
you  will  see  this  same  emblem,  which  identifies  Phallic  worship 
with  Masonry. 

Mackey  says  the  same  thing  here  in  another  form: 

And  here,  I  think,  we  undoubtedly  find  the  remote  origin  of  the  point 
within  a  circle,  an  ancient  symbol  which  was  first  adopted  by  the  sun-wor¬ 
shipers,  and  then  by  the  ancient  astronomers,  as  a  symbol  of  the  sun  sur¬ 
rounded  by  the  earth  or  the  universe,— the  sun  as  the  generator  and  the 
earth  as  the  producer, — and  afterwards  modified  in  its  signification  and 
incorporated  into  the  symbolism  of  Freemasonry. 

Do  you  want  to  know  what  Masonry  is  “incorporated” 
with?  He  tells  you  plainly: 

As  a  symbol  of  the  generative  principle  of  nature,  the  worship  of  the 
Phallus  appears  to  have  been  very  nearly  universal.  In  the  mysteries  it 
was  carried  in  solemn  procession.  The  Jews,  in  their  numerous  deflections 
into  idolatry,  fell  readily  into  that  of  this  symbol.  And  they  did  this  at  a 
very  early  period  of  their  history,  for  we  are  told  that  even  in  the  time  of 
the  Judges  (Jud.  iii.  7)  they  “served  Baalim  and  the  groves.”  Now  the 
word  translated,  here  and  elsewhere,  as  groves,  is  in  the  original  Asherah, 
and  is  by  all  modern  interpreters  supposed  to  mean  a  species  of  Phallus. 
Thus  Movers  ( Phoniz ,  p.  56)  says  that  Asherah  is  a  sort  of  Phallus  erected 
to  the  telluric  goddess  Baaltes,  and  the  learned  Holloway  ( Originals ,  i.  18) 
had  long  before  come  to  the  same  conclusion. 

He  identifies  it  with  the  other  forms:  “The  Cteis  of  the 
Greeks,  and  the  Yoni  of  the  Indians.” 

He  has  the  shameful  audacity  to  declare  that  this  filthy 
form  of  worship,  a  foul  and  unutterably  shameful  thing,  is 
represented  in  Masonry  by  “the  point  within  the  circle.” 
These  are  his  words:  “It  is  the  same  thing ,  but  under  a 
different  form  as  the  Master  and  Wardens  of  a  (Masonic) 
Lodge.”  Think  of  it,  that  three  men  represent  the  Phallus. 

I  know  nothing  more  shamelessly  foul  than  this  confession, 
that  Masonry  is  simply  a  return  to  the  worship  of  the  foulest 
form  of  bestial  prostitution  that  you  can  imagine. 

I  am  not  reading  in  these  quotations  from  enemies  of 
Masonry;  I  am  reading  from  a  great  high  priest  of  Masonry. 
And  how  can  the  Methodist  Church  be  the  Church  of  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  when  its  ministers,  and  its  elders,  and  its  leading 
managers  are  Masons?  Is  it  possible  to  serve  God  and  Baal 
at  the  same  time? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — There  can  be  only  one  answer — No.  If  that 
Church  will  not  repent,  and  drive  out  of  its  body  these  foul, 


88  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

filthy  children  of  the  Devil,  then  it  is  a  good  Church  to  come 
out  of. 

May  God  bring  His  people  out  of  it.  Amen. 

THE  METHODIST  CHURCH  CANNOT  BE  REFORMED. 

Probably  seventy-five  per  cent  of  the  General  Conference  . 
now  sitting  in  the  Auditorium  are  Freemasons. 

The  statement  was  made  by  Dr.  Crouch,  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Conference  in  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  two  years  ago, 
that  ninety  per  cent  of  the  members  of  that  Conference  were 
Masons. 

You  can  see  who  controls  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
It  is  the  priests  of  the  Phallic  worship;  not  merely  priests 
of  Baal,  but  priests  of  the  grove  of  Asherah,  the  foul, 
filthy,  damning  worship  which  even  the  heathen  were 
ashamed  of. 

That  is  Mah-hah-bone — the  point  within  the  circle.  Indeed, 
Freemasonry  may  be  called  the  Mysteries  of  Mah-hah-bone. 

Mr.  Edmond  Ronayne’s  work,  entitled  “Mah-hah-bone,”  is 
a  very  able  work  upon  that  subject. 

CONCERNING  THE  SECRET  WORK  OF  THE  KADOSH  DEGREES. 

I  desire  to  read  to  you  some  things  in  connection  with  the 
alleged  last  degree  of  Freemasonry.  If  may  be  a  question 
as  to  whether  it  is  the  last  degree;  perhaps  that  is  not 
known. 

There  are  said — I  find  upon  pretty  extensive  reading — to  be 
at  the  least  seven  degrees  of  what  is  called  the  Kadosh. 

I  ventured  two  years  ago  to  say  to  you  that  I  believed  if  we 
could  get  the  facts,  we  would  find  that  the  highest  order  of 
Masonry,  which  has  at  its  head  the  supreme  ruler  of  Masonry 
throughout  all  its  various  forms,  was  in  the  Jesuit  Order  in  the 
Church  of  Rome.  I  am  of  that  opinion  still. 

I  told  you  early  in  this  series  of  addresses  that  I  would  not 
tell  you  all  I  knew,  and  I  will  not,  in  your  interests,  and  in  the 
interests  of  my  further  knowledge.  There  are  facts  in  connec¬ 
tion  with  Masonry  of  which  only  very  few,  even  of  those  who 
have  reached  the  highest,  or  rather  the  lowest,  degrees,  are 
aware.  All  of  these  will  yet  be  exposed:  for  Jesus  truly  said, 
“There  is  nothing  covered  up  that  shall  not  be  revealed;  and 
hid,  that  shall  not  be  known.” 

It  is  a  well  known  fact  that  the  highest  degree  Masons  say 
that  they  only  amuse  the  brethren  with  the  lower  degrees ;  that 
they  are  not  intended  to  be  understood  by  them,  or  to  be  under¬ 
stood  only  in  such  a  way  as  to  mislead  them.  I  believe  that, 
even  as  they  stand,  these  lowrer  degrees  reveal  nearly  the  whole 
wickedness  to  those  who  have  ears  to  hear,  and  eyes  to  see. 
Bernard  in  his  exposition  of  the  degree  which  he  declares  to 


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be  the  ne  plus  ultra — “nothing  more  beyond” — of  Masonry, 
says : 

THE  GRAND  COMMANDER’S  FACE  IS  NOT  SEEN  BY  EVEN  THE 

INITIATED. 

In  this  chapter  there  are  no  decorations,  nor  any  emblem,  as  the  curtain 
‘is  entirely  drawn.  There  is  nothing  figured  on  the  ground  but  the  mysteri¬ 
ous  ladder,  which  must  be  covered  until  the  candidate  has  taken  his  obliga¬ 
tion.  Observe  this  well:  you  are  never  to  admit  a  person  to  this  eminent 
degree,  unless  you  have  full  proof  of  his  fidelity.  Of  the  five  brothers  who 
compose  this  chapter,  two  must  be  with  the  candidate  in  another  apart¬ 
ment,  until  he  is  introduced,  the  other  three  remain  in  the  chapter  to  assist 
in  the  reception.  In  a  distant  place,  a  Knight  of  Kadosh  cannot  initiate 
another  brother  in  this  eminent  degree,  unless  he  has  a  power  or  patent 
from  an  Inspector  General  or  a  Deputy  Grand  Inspector,  under  his  hand 
and  seal;  and  when  a  reception  is  made,  the  Grand  Commander  remains 
alone  in  the  chapter  with  the  candidate,  and  must  be  so  situated  that  the 
candidate  cannot  see  him,  as  he  is  not  to  know  who  initiated  him. 

The  name  and  face  of  this  Grand  Commander  of  the  Knights 
of  Kadosh  is  not  to  be  even  seen  nor  known  by  the  very  Knights 
who  compose  this  highest  order. 

FORM  OF  OPENING  THE  CHAPTER. 

Question— “  Illustrious  Knight,  are  you  elected?” 

Answer — “Thrice  Illustrious  Knight,  Grand  Commander,  I  am.” 

Question — “How  came  you  to  be  elected?” 

Answer — “Fortune  decided  for  me.” 

Question — “What  proof  can  you  give  me  of  your  reception?” 

Answer — “A  cavern  has  been  witness  of  it.” 

Question— “  What  did  you  do  in  the  cavern?  ” 

Answer — “  I  executed  my  commission.” 

Question — “Have  you  penetrated  further?” 

Answer — “Yes,  Thrice  Illustrious  Grand  Commander.” 

Question— “  How  shall  I  believe  you?” 

Answer — “  My  name  is  Knight  of  Kadosh;  you  understand  me?  ” 

Question — “What’s  the  o’clock?” 

Answer — “The  hour  of  silence.” 

Question — “As  it  is  so,  give  me  the  sign,  to  convince  me  of  your  knowl¬ 
edge, - ” 

On  which  they  all  draw  their  swords,  when  the  Grand  Commander 
knocks  one,  very  hard,  on  the  table  before  him,  and  says:  “Illustrious 
Knights,  the  chapter  is  open.” 

As  soon  as  the  Knights  with  the  candidate  in  the  antechamber  have 
heard  the  one  blow  in  the  chapter,  by  which  they  know  the  chapter  isopen, 
one  of  them  comes  and  knocks  one  on  the  door;  one  in  the  chapter  goes 
and  opens  the  door  and  asks  what  he  wants.  He  replies  that  a  servant 
Knight  demands  to  come  to  the  degree  of  Grand  Elected,  as  he  has  all  the 
degrees  and  qualifications  of  Masonry  which  are  necessary;  which  being 
reported  to  the  Thrice  Illustrious  Commander,  who  says:  “Illustrious 
Knights,  can  we  admit  this  Freemason  among  us,  without  running  any  risk 
of  indiscretion  from  him?” 

The  other  two  Knights  then  answer,  “We  swear  and  promise  for 

him.” 

Then  the  Thrice  Illustrious  Grand  Commander  approaches,  and  they 
take  each  other  by  the  hand,  and  take  the  following  obligation  to  each 
other:  “We  promise  and  swear,  by  the  Living  God,  always  Supreme,  to 
revenge  the  death  of  our  ancestor,  and  which  of  us  that  should  in  any  manner 
commit  the  most  light  indiscretion,  touching  the  secret  of  our  order,  shall 


gO  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

suffer  death ,  and  shall  have  his  body  buried  under  the  throne  of  this  Illus¬ 
trious  Assembly  ;  so  God  protect  us  in  our  design,  and  maintain  us  in  equity 
and  right.”  Amen. 

FORM  OF  RECEPTION. 

A  short  time  after  the  two  Knights  with  the  candidate  have  heard  the 
loud  rap  of  the  Grand  Commander  to  open  the  chapter,  they  both  take  their 
hands,  and  after  one  of  them  has  been  at  the  door,  and  when  they  think  the 
Grand  Commander  has  finished  the  necessary  business,  they  introduce  the 
candidate,  and  leave  him  in  the  hands  of  the  Grand  Commander,  and  all 
four  retire  to  guard  the  door  of  the  entrance,  and  every  other  door  of  the 
adjacent  rooms  (if  any).  The  reason  of  their  leaving  the  chapter  is,  that  no 
person  ever  assisted  at  the  reception  of  a  Knight  Templar. 

When  the  candidate  enters  the  chapter,  he  prostrates  his  face  to  the 
ground,  when  the  Grand  Commander,  behind  the  curtain, — 

Mind  you,  the  Grand  Commander  does  not  show  his  face. 
He  may  be  the  Jesuit  General,  or  any  other  foe  of  Christ  and 
God’s  Kingdom. 

— reminds  him  of  the  principal  points  of  Masonry,  from  its  beginning,  to  the 
epoch  of  the  assassination  of  Hiram  Abiff;  Solomon’s  desire  of  punishing 
the  traitors,  in  the  most  exemplary  manner;  the  method  he  took  in  dispos¬ 
ing  the  Masters  who  went  in  search  of  the  three  villains,  in  order  to  execute 
his  vengeance.  He  repeats  to  him  the  zeal,  constancy  and  fervency  of 
Joabert,  Stokin  and  Jubelum,  who,  after  the  most  painful  search  (by  Solo¬ 
mon’s  order),  had  the  happiness  of  finding  among  the  ruins  of  Enoch’s 
Temple  in  the  Ninth  Arch,  the  precious  treasure  of  the  Perfect  Masons,  etc. 
He  continues  to  remind  him  of  the  firmness  of  the  Grand  Elect,  and  Per¬ 
fect  Masons,  at  the  time  of  the  temple’s  destruction. 

He  then  says: 

The  Illustrious  Grand  Commander  makes  a  general  history  in  gene¬ 
alogy  of  the  Masonic  Order,  its  progress,  its  decline,  and  the  manner  how  it 
was  sustained,  till  the  epoch  of  the  Ctusades,  and  until  the  historical  cir¬ 
cumstances,  that  have  given  occasion  to  the  degree  which  the  candidate 
expects;  a  degree  that  will  give  him  a  perfect  knowledge  of  the  precedent 
degrees,  and  the  manner  how  Masonry  has  come  to  us;  after  which,  the 
candidate  takes  the  following  obligation,  his  right  hand  on  the  Bible,  his 
left  hand  between  the  hands  of  the  Grand  Commander. 

The  Grand  Commander  puts  his  hands  out  from  the  cur¬ 
tain.  The  candidate  does  not  see  his  face,  and  he  puts  his  left 
hand  between  the  hands  of  the  Grand  Commander,  and  makes 
this  oath : 

OBLIGATION. 

“I  promise  and  swear,  never  to  reveal  the  secrets  of  the  Grand  Elected 
Knights  of  Kadosh,  or  White  and  Black  Eagle,  to  any  person.  /  swear  to 

take  revenge  on  the  traitors  of  Masonry! 

Then  he  goes  on  much  to  the  same  effect  and  says  he  will  be : 

“  .  .  .  ready  at  all  times  to  conquer  the  Holy  Land,  when  I  shall  be 

summoned  to  appear,  to  pay  due  obedience  at  all  times,  to  the  Princes  of 
the  Royal  Secret;  and  if  I  fail  in  this  my  obligation,  I  desire  that  all  the 
penalties  of  my  former  obligations  may  be  inflicted  on  me.  Amen.”  He 
kisses  the  Bible  and  rises. 

Then  the  Grand  Commander  proceeds  and  says,  “  My  dear  brother,  he 
who  has  bestowed  this  degree  on  you,  which  you  have  now  aspired  to,  and 
who  is  described  in  this  place,  as  Grand  Commander,  and  Grand  Inspector 
of  all  lodges,  and  Grand  Elected,  is  sensible  of  the  importance  of  the 
secret  already  confided  in  you;  it  is  therefore  necessary  to  recommend  a 


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circumspection,  and  also  to  observe  to  those  who  take  the  name  of  Knights 
of  the  White  and  Black  Eagle,  and  Kadosh,  to  be  always  attentive,  and  not 
to  give  the  least  suspicion  relative  to  our  mysteries,  order,  progress,  and 
end  of  Masonry.  The  imprudence  and  indiscretion  of  many  brothers  has 
given  a  knowledge  to  the  world  of  many  of  our  emblems,  by  which  Masonry 
has  greatly  suffered,  and  will  be  repaired  with  difficulty.  Their  indiscre¬ 
tion  has  caused  the  loss  and  retreat  of  many  puissant  brothers,  who  would 
have  been  an  ornament  and  support  of  our  lodge.  Such  indiscretion  in  this 
degree,  my  dear  brother,  would  be  without  any  recovery,  as  there  are  no 
more  emblems;  when  every  matter  shall  be  discovered,  disclosed  to  you, 
that  will  give  room  for  some  events,  of  which  you  will  see  the  consequences, 
when  you  shall  have  heard  all  my  instructions.  The  word  which  our 
brothers  place  at  the  end  of  their  obligations,  viz:  Amen,  signifies  this  is 
no  more ,  that  shall  be  no  more  ;  if  this  shall  be  again.  This  ought  no  longer 
to  be  a  secret  to  you,  who  are  going  to  have  an  explanation  of  the  origin  of 
Masonry,  and  what  has  occasioned  the  society.” 

Then  a  long  lecture  is  given  by  Truth,  as  he  is  called.  If 
the  candidate  is  afraid  to  engage,  or  hesitates  to  proceed 
further,  he  is  shown  out  and  the  chapter  is  closed.  If,  on  the 
contrary,  the  candidate  goes  forward,  he  then  kneels  and 
takes  another  oath,  and  the  Grand  Commander  says: 

“You  swear  and  promise  to  me,  on  that  you  hold  most  dear  and  sacred, 
First.  To  practice  the  works  of  corporeal  mercy,  to  live  and  die  in  your?'eli- 
gion ” — 

Think  of  it,  Masotiry  a  religion  !  with  Mah-hah-bone  for  a 
god.  We  shall  soon  see  what  that  religion  is  in  this  Knights 
of  Kadosh.  Look  closely  to  see  what  the  religion  is  which  the 
concealed  Grand  Commander  talks  about. 

— “and  never  declare  to  any  man  who  received  you,  or  assisted  at  your 
reception  in  this  sublime  degree.”  The  candidate  answers,  “  I  promise 
and  swear.” 

Then  the  Grand  Commander  says,  “Say  with  me,  ‘  Isedhalad,’ ”  which 
he  repeats. 

Secondly.  “You  promise  and  swear  to  have  candor  in  all  your  actions, 
in  consequence  never  to  receive  in  this  degree,  any  brother  who  is  not  your 
most  intimate  friend,  and  then  by  the  consent  of  two  Grand  Elected 
Inspectors,  if  to  be  met  with,  or  by  a  patent  given  you  for  that  purpose.” 
The  candidate  answers,  “  I  promise  and  swear.”  He  then  repeats 
“  Scharlabac .” 

Thirdly.  “You  promise  and  swear  at  all  times  to  possess  a  sweetness 
of  mind,  as  much  as  you  are  capable,  to  love  and  cherish  your  brothers  as 
yourself,  to  help  them  in  their  necessities,  to  visit  and  assist  them  when  they 
are  sick,  and  never  draw  arms  against  them  on  any  pretense  whatsoever.” 
Answer — “  I  promise  and  swear.” 

“Say  with  me,  ‘Motechl” 

Fourth.  “You  promise  and  swear  to  regulate  your  discourse  by  truth, 
and  to  keep  in  great  circumspection  and  regard  the  degree  of  the  White 
and  Black  Eagle  or  Kadosh.”  He  answers,  “  1  promise  and  swear.” 

“Say  with  me,  ‘  EmunahN 

I  desire  you  to  feel  the  significance  of  it.  You  are  thoughtful 
people.  Think  what  the  following  words  mean: 

Fifth.  “  You  promise  and  swear  that  you  will  travel  for  the  advance¬ 
ment  of  heaven,  and  to  follow  at  all  times,  and  in  all  points,  every  matter 
that  you  are  ordered  and  prescribed,  by  the  Illustrious  Knights  and  Grand 
Commander,  to  whose  orders  you  swear  sjtbmission  and  obedience ,  on  all 
occasions  without  any  restrictions .” 


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The  man  has  entirely  parted  with  himself  forever,  if  he  says 
Yes.  He  says  yes,  “I  promise  and  swear.” 

“  Say  with  me,  ‘  Hcwiach  Sciatal  ” 

Then  he  goes  on  to  promise  and  swear  that  he  will  “sacri¬ 
fice  the  traitors  to  Masonry.”  He  goes  on  to  promise  and 
swear  that  he  will  do  a  great  many  other  things  to  the  same 
effect,  and  he  says,  after  the  Grand  Commander,  the  words, 
“  Choemel,”  “Binah,”  and  “Tabinah.” 

After  the  candidate  has  pronounced  the  last  word,  the 
Grand  Commander  relieves  him  and  says,  “By  the  Seven  Con¬ 
ditions,  and  by  the  Power  that  is  transmitted  to  me,  which  I 
have  acquired  by  my  discretion,  by  untold  travels,  zeal,  fervor 
and  constancy,  I  receive  you  Grand  Inspector  of  all  Lodges, 
Grand  Elect'  Knight  Templar,  and  to  take  rank  among  the 
Knights  of  Kadosh,  or  White  and  Black  Eagle,  which  we  bear 
the  name  of.  I  desire  you  not  to  forget  it.” 

“ne  plus  ultra.” 

«  It  is  indispensable  for  you,  my  brother,  to  mount  the  mysterious  ladder 
which  you  see  there;  it  will  serve  to  instruct  you  in  the  mysteries  of  our 
order,  and  it  is  absolutely  necessary  that  you  should  have  a  true  knowledge 
of  it.”’  The  candidate  then  ascends  the  ladder.  When  he  is  on  the  seventh 
or  highest  step,  and  has  pronounced  the  three  last  words,  the  ladder  is 
lowered,  and  the  candidate  passes  over  it,  because  he  cannot  retire  the 
same  way,  as  he  would  in  such  a  case  be  obliged  to  go  back  against  which 
he  has  taken  an  obligation,  not  to  retire  by  the  interests  and  views  of  the 
order,  which  is  the  reason  that  the  ladder  is  lowered  and  he  passes  over  it. 
He  then  reads  the  words  at  the  bottom  of  the  ladder,  “Ne  plus  ultra! 

That  is,  there  is  “nothing  more  beyond.”  The  Grand  Com¬ 
mander  goes  on  with  the  alleged  history  of  this  order,  which 
I  shall  not  read  at  length. 

When  that  discourse  is  finished,  the  man  is  no  longer  in  any 
sense  a  Christian,  nor  has  he  any  religion.  In  the  degree 
before  it,  he  has  renounced  all  religion.  He  says  he  is  a  Chris¬ 
tian  “no  more,”  and  in  this  he  has  become  the  absolute  slave 
of  this  Order,  and  has  “sworn  submission  and  obedience,  on  all 
occasions,  without  any  restriction ,”  to  a  man  whose  face  he  has 
not  even  seen,  and  who  may  be  the  General  of  the  Jesuit  Order 
for  all  he  knows! 

Can  a  man  fall  lower  than  when  he  has  reached  the  “Ne 
plus  ultra”  of  Masonry? 

THE  ABOMINATIONS  OF  THE  MYSTIC  SHRINE. 

I  now  come  to  the  Mystic  Shrine.  I  am  grieved  in  my 
heart  that  in  this  City  of  Chicago  such  an  abominable  institu¬ 
tion  exists  as  this  Mystic  Shrine.  This  Mystic  Shrine  is  open 
to  those  who  have  taken  the  thirty-second  degree,  Scottish 
Rite,  or  Knights  Templar  degree,  York  Rite  Masonry. 

The  storv  of  it  i*s  told  in  this  introduction.  It  was  imported, 
like  all  these  other  degrees,  from  the  old  countries. 


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In  1871  the  ritual  was  brought  to  America  by  one  of  the  transient 
foreign  members  and  representatives,  and  placed  in  the  hands  of  Dr.  Walter 
M.  Fleming,  thirty-third  degree,  Sovereign  Grand  Inspector-General  A. 
and  A.  Rite,  and  Eminent  Commander  of  Columbia  Commandery  No.  1, 
Knights  Templar,  New  York. 

For  some  time  it  did  not  succeed,  until  Mr.  Florence  went 
to  Europe,  and  came  back,  bringing  with  him  the  ritual  of  the 
order  as  it  is  worked  in  foreign  countries. 

In  1876  W.  J.  Florence  called  together  such  of  the  original  members  of 
the  organization  of  1871  as  were  living  and  constituted  in  December,  1876, 
Mecca  Temple  No.  1,  as  the  head  of  the  order  in  America. 

This  ritual  which  I  hold  in  my  hand  is  the  present  ritual  of 
the  order,  and  has  been  given  up  by  those  who  have  renounced  it. 

It  is  entitled  “The  Mystic  Shrine  Illustrated.  The  Full 
Illustrated  Ritual  of  the  Nobles,  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  Revised 
and  Enlarged  Edition.” 

It  is  published  in  this  City  of  Chicago  by  Ezra  A.  Cook,  and 
bears  date  of  1893. 

It  also  bears  the  inscription,  “Entered  according  to  Act  of 
Congress  in  the  year  1893  by  Ezra  A.  Cook,  in  the  office  of  the 
Librarian  of  Congress,  Washington,  D.  C.” 

There  is  not  a  shadow  of  reason  to  doubt  its  genuineness, 
and  it  has  been  filed  in  the  Library  of  the  Congress  of  the 
United  States  for  seven  years.  Its  genuineness  has  never, 
so  far  as  I  can  learn,  been  disputed. 

The  Order  is  declared  to  have  been  established  at  Mecca, 
Arabia,  in  1608,  and  to  have  been  revived  at  Cairo,  Egypt,  on 
June  14,  1837. 

The  Ritual  was  compiled,  arranged,  and  issued  at  Aleppo, 
Arabia,  by  Louis  Marracci,  the  Latin  translator  of  the  Moham¬ 
medan  Koran. 

The  Lodge  Room  is  termed  the  Temple,  and  the  furniture 
is  Masonic,  with  some  additions,  the  room  being  draped  with 
black  alpaca  or  white,  edged  with  purple  and  blue. 

FURNITURE. 

A  canopy  or  tent  in  a  cart ;  a  pedestal  with  gavel ;  large  scimiter  across 
the  pedestal;  altar  of  obligation  covered  in  black,  having  on  it  the  Bible 
and  the  Koran;  the  black  stone  or  holy  stone  of  black  marble,  one  foot 
square  or  more,  and  two  crossed  swords;  right  of  East,  altar  of  incense  with 
burning  incense  of  myrrh,  etc.;  left  of  East,  bier  and  coffin,  each  half  way| 
between  East  and  altar  of  obligation;  laver  of  water  in  the  South;  organ, 
etc.  The  working  tools,  etc.,  are  a  large  cylinder  of  tin  or  sheet  iron  about 
thirty  feet  long  and  three  feet  in  diameter  and  constructed  so  as  to  tele¬ 
scope  together  when  not  in  use;  a  galvanic  battery;  an  altar  on  which  is 
placed  a  gold  book  with  crossed  swords  on  it;  three  gavels;  block  and 
tackle;  hoodwinks  and  blindfolders;  boxing  gloves;  a  short  ladder;  four 
pair  of  drawers;  three  pair  of  handcuffs;  a  bumper;  sort  of  desk  six  feet 
high  constructed  so  as  to  fall  to  pieces  when  required  for  work;  a  large  five- 
gallon  sponge;  several  chairs  from  three  to  six  feet  long;  a  Chinese  gong, 
horse-fiddle,  and  any  other  instrument  on  which  a  hideous  noise  can  be 
produced;  twelve  suits  of  uniform  with  sabers  for  Arabic  soldiers;  several 
masks  or  false  faces;  a  rough  and  rugged  road  made  of  ropes,  etc.,  bridge 


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of  sighs;  three  small  syringes;  dolman;  sandals;  firearms;  collapse;  and 
any  other  uncouth  dress  or  figure  to  create  terror  or  fear  to  the  candidate. 

I  will  not  weary  you  with  the  opening  ceremonies  of  this 
order.  I  will  simply  tell  you  that  they  strip  the  candidate. 
How  suggestive  that  is  of  the  words  in  Scripture  in  connection 
with  the  last  days.  See  Revelation  16:13  to  15. 

And  I  saw  coming  out  of  the  mouth  of  the  dragon,  and  out  of  the  mouth 
of  the  beast,  and  out  of  the  mouth  of  the  false  prophet,  three  unclean 
spirits,  as  it  were  frogs:  for  they  are  spirits  of  devils,  working  signs;  which 
go  forth  unto  the  kings  of  the  whole  world,  to  gather  them  together  unto  the 
War  of  the  Great  Day  of  God  the  Almighty. 

Then  the  warning  is  given: 

(Behold,  I  come  as  a  thief.  Blessed  is  he  that  watcheth,  and  keepeth 
his  garments,  lest  he  walk  naked,  and  they  see  his  shame.) 

One  of  the  things  which  is  done  in  all  these  infernal  lodges 
is  to  strip  a  man  and  make  him  a  humiliating  object  of  con¬ 
scious  nakedness.  They  delight  to  “see  his  shame.” 

I  suppose  if  President  McKinley,  as  is  publicly  alleged,  took 
this  degree,  he  went  through  this.  If  he  did  not,  they  did  not 
initiate  him  properly,  and  broke  their  own  ritual: 

They  salute  and  retire,  and  prepare  candidates  by  taking  off  the  shoes, 
coat,  collar  and  vest,  and  clothing  them  in  white  dominoes  and  slippers, 
handcuffed,  or  tied  at  the  wrist  loosely. 

How  would  Mrs.  McKinley  like  to  see  the  President  now? 

The  candidate  enters  in  like  a  poor — not  only  naked,  but 
wretched  criminal.  However  men  can  so  descend  as  to  become 
so  degraded  as  to  enter  a  lodge  like  this  amongst  their  fellows, 
I  cannot  understand. 

When  the  candidate  (one,  two  or  three)  is  ready,  the  Ceremonial  Mas¬ 
ters  take  charge  of  him.  Threedoud  knocks  at  the  outer  door  of  the  temple 
call  the  Oriental  Guide  to  admit  them.  The  response  is,  inside,  a  horrible 
clatter,  the  rasping  of  iron  rings  over  an  iron  bar  and  the  withdrawal  of 
several  large  bolts;  then  the  door  opens:  “  What  is  the  cause  of  this  clam¬ 
orous  alarm?  Who  dares  intrude  upon  the  ceremonies  of  our  Mystic 
Shrine?”  asks  the  Oriental  Guide. 

Is  that  not  a  question  to  ask  William  McKinley,  President 
of  the  United  States?  (Laughter.) 

Has  it  come  to  such  a  pass  that  the  President  of  the  United 
States  comes  in  nearly  naked,  clothed  in  a  white  domino,  and 
handcuffed?  Look  at  this  answer. 

“  Poor  Sons  of  the  Desert,  who  are  weary  of  the  hot  sands  and  the 
burning  sun  of  the  plains  and  humbly  crave  shelter  under  the  protecting 
dome  of  the  Temple.” 

THE  MYSTIC  SHRINE  MOHAMMEDAN  IN  ITS  RELIGION. 

After  vouching  for  their  characters,  the  First  Ceremonial 
Master  advances  and  whispers :  “Mecca.”  The  Oriental  Guide 
says,  “’Tis  well;  let  them  enter.” 

What  is  Mecca?  It  is  the  City  where  the  sacred  stone  of 
the  Mohammedans  is  kept,  and  where  no  Christian  dare  enter 
to  this  day.  If  a  Christian  were  known  to  enter  the  sacred 


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shrine  of  the  Mosque  at  Mecca,  he  would  be  murdered  without 
any  hesitation.  They  would  consider  that  the  only  way  that 
they  could  cleanse  the  spot  which  he  had  polluted  by  his  foot 
would  be  to  murder  him.  Several  have  gone  disguised  as 
Mohammedan  pilgrims,  who  have  just  escaped  with  their  lives. 
If  they  had  been  discovered,  they  would  have  been  murdered. 

Is  it  befitting  the  President  of  the  United  States,  a  member 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  given  by  this  people 
the  government  of  this  great  country,  to  go  in  like  this  and  say 
“Mecca”?  (Laughter.)  Washington  goes  for  enlightment  to 
Mecca!  The  President  bows  before  the  Caliph. 

I  am  ashamed  of  this  thing.  It  gets  worse  as  you  go  on. 

They  enter,  preceded  by  Marshal,  Ceremonial  Masters,  etc.,  conduct¬ 
ing  them,  the  Guide  leading  all. 

Grand  Potentate  (three  raps,  all  rise)— Gong  sounds  once,  organ  music. 
They  march  twice  around,  organ  or  singing  or  both;  the  gong  sounds  when 
they  pass  the  East  and  when  they  halt  there  the  second  time  around. 
Grand  Potentate  strikes  once;  all  are  seated.  Candidates  halt. 

Grand  Potentate — “  What  strange  intruders  have  we  here?  Our  pleas¬ 
ures  were  most  perfect  and  should  be  sacred  from  this  turmoil  and  display.” 

Miserable  William  McKinley,  what  are  you  doing  here? 
(Laughter.)  You  will  get  into  trouble  most  surely. 

Previous  to  the  entrance  of  the  candidate,  the  Captain  of  the  Guard 
chooses  twelve  members,  who  dress  like  Arabic  soldiers  with  large  broad 
scimiters,  and  are  stationed  outside;  drill,  and  are  ready  for  duty  when 
wanted.  The  candidates  are  seized  and  carried  out  by  the  soldiers  in  a 
rough  manner,  at  which  the  Oriental  Guide  supplicatingly  answers. 

Oriental  Guide — “Illustrious  Grand  Potentate,  ’tis  I  who  have  ushered 
in  (one,  two  or  three)  poor  Sons  of  the  Desert,  who,  being  weary  of  the  hot 
sands  and  burning  sun  of  the  plains,  humbly  crave  that  sacred  boon  to  the 
weary  and  thirsty  traveler,  a  cup  of  water  and  shelter  under  the  protecting 
dome  of  our  goodly  Temple.  I  do  commend  them  to  your  favor,  having 
found  them  worthy  and  not  of  treacherous  or  ignoble  purpose,  each  having 
passed  the  ordeal  of  the  Secret  Ballot  of  our  Mystic  Shrine  unsoiled  and 
vouched  for  by  a  Noble  with  our  secret  pass.” 

Grand  Potentate—"  Most  Noble  Guide,  know  you  the  penaltv  of  broken  ’ 
faith  and  do  you  stand  forth  as  ransom  for  them  all?” 

Oriental  Guide — “  Illustrious  Grand  Potentate,  I  do.” 

Grand  Potentate — “So  be  it,  then.  Conduct  them  once  again  about 
our  Shrine  and  to  our  Most  High  Priest,  that  he  may  imprint  upon  the 
tablets  of  their  memories  a  knowledge  of  the  duties  they  do' here  assume.” 

Candidates  are  conducted  around  to  the  Prophet — 

Aftei\William  McKinley  has  been  kicked  out,  he  comes  in 
again. 

— and  Priest,  who  is  robed  and  wearing  a  mitre. 

Priest — “  Strangers,  are  your  motives  for  coming  among  u«s  honorable, 
pure  and  free  from  hope  of  gain  or  pride  of  knowledge? 

Candidates — “They  are.” 

Priest—"  Have  you  a  belief  in  the  existence  of  a  Deity,  future  rewards 
and  punishments?” 

Candidates — “I  have.” 

Priest — “Have  you  a  desire  to  promote  justice  and  suppress  wrong?” 

Candidates— “  1  have.” 

Priest — “Have  you  a  due  regard  for  female  virtue?” 

Candidates—"  I  have.” 


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priest_«  Are  you  willing  to  jeopardize  your  life,  if  need  be,  to  punish 
the  guilty  and  protect  the  innocent  and  labor  in  the  cause  of  justice,  truth 
and  common  humanity?” 

Candidates — “  I  am.”  .  .  _  .  ,  , 

Priest— “Have  you  still  a  desire  to  unite  with  us  in  the  inseparable 

bonds  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  for  the  purposes  to  which  you  have  assented? 

Candidates — “  I  have.”  .  .  .  ,  .  , 

High  Priest — “  If  you  have  answered  m  sincerity  and  in  truth  in  these 

replies  I  can  assure  you  that  no  conflicting  sentiment  nor  requirement  here 
will  mar  your  principles  nor  your  duties  in  the.  outer  world,  be  they  what 
they  may.  Our  alliance  or  the  Rite  of  our  Mystic  Shrme  is  ancient,  honor¬ 
able,  benevolent  and  secret.” 

Listen  to  this.  This  is  what  Methodist  ministers,  and 
Methodist  class  leaders,  and  the  President  of  the  United  States 
are  alleged  to  have  gone  through. 

MOSLEM  DOCTRINE  TAUGHT  IN  MYSTIC  SHRINE. 

«  p  is  ancient  as  the  corner-stone  of  Mohammed’s  Temple  of  Mecca ;  as 
secret  as  the  Moslem  that  bound  the  tribes  of  Arabia  to  Allah  or  their  god, 
as  honorable  as  the  Christian,  and  the  tenets  to  which  it  is  dedicated  when 
once  assumed  cannot  be  eschewed  or  cast  aloof.  We  know  no  retrogres¬ 
sion-  justice  is  our  escutcheon;  charity  beyond  reason  we  do  not  expect; 
virtue  must  be  regarded  for  its  peerless  worth  and  morality  observed  for 
the  general  good  of  all.  We  require  absolute  secrecy  and  desire  all  our 
disciples  to  hold  an  interest  in  our  noble  cause  and  a  just  observance  of  the 
tenets  of  our  faith.  Let  these  preliminary  teachings  be  deeply  graven  upon 
vour  hearts.  They  are  priceless  when  well  observed  and  attributes  that 
cannot  be  bought  with  paltry,  sordid  gold.  By  the  existence  of  Allah  and 
the  creed  of  Mohammed” — 

Listen  to  that,  ye  who  have  vowed  to  obey  this  Bible  as  the 
Word  of  God,  and  the  only  infallible  rule  of  faith  and  practice. 
You  have  sworn  in  this  Mystic  Shrine  by  the  creed  of  Moham¬ 
med,  the  false  prophet. 

_ “by  the  legendary  sanctity  of  our  Tabernacle  at  Mecca,  we  greet  you,  and 

in  commemoration  of  the  Arab’s  faith  in  purity  and  innocence,  we  accept 
your  answers  as  sincere,  and  you  will  now  be  permitted  to  proceed  m  the 
rites  and  ceremonies  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  .  The  Oriental  Guide  and  escort 
will  now  conduct  you  onward,  while  you  will  reverently  lend  an  attentive 

ear  to  our  preparatory  service.” 

Gong,  music,  verse.  Candidates  proceed. 

On  they  go  with  the  scimiters  waving  over  their  heads. 

Grand  Potentate— “Who  is  he  who  hath  professed  to  have  conversed  in 
person  with  the  Supreme  and  maketh  himself  mightiest  of  his  Mohammed, 

the  Prophet  of  the  Arab’s  creed?” 

Gong,  music  and  short  verse.  Candidates  proceed. 

Are  these  words  for  a  Christian?  It  is  not  Jesus  Christ, 
the  Son  of  God,  Advocate  with  the  Father,  but  it  is  Moharn- 
med. 

Chief  Rabban— “  Who  but  Mohammed  mingled  his  religion  with  his 
Hourii  and  said :  Are  not  these  the  true  sources  of  happiness? 

Gong,  music,  verse. 

Let  us  pause  here,  and  invite  the  attention  of  every  honest 
Christian  wife  and  mother  to  what  the  President  of  the  United 
States  has  assented  to  as  “the  true  sources  of  happiness. 


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Was  the  President  deaf  when  these  words  were  spoken  in 
praise  of  Mohammed,  who  mingled  “his  religion  with  his 
Hourii.” 

Take  up  the  Century  Dictionary  and  read  the  definition  of 
the  word  “houri.”  It  is  this:  “Among  the  Mohammedans, 
a  Nymph  of  Paradise.  In  the  Koran  the  houris  are  repre¬ 
sented  as  beautiful  virgins,  endowed  with  unfading  youth, 
and  immunity  from  all  disease.  Their  company  is  to  form  the 
chief  felicity  of  the  faithful. 

“‘Or  thronging  all  one  porch  of  Paradise, 

A  group  of  houris  bowed  to  see 
The  dying  Islamite,  with  hands  and  eyes 
That  said,  We  wait  for  thee.’ 

“ — Tennyson  “  Palace  of  Art.” 

Is  this  the  faith  of  the  gentle  Christian  lady  who  is  mistress 
of  the  White  House,  the  Executive  Mansion,  at  Washington? 

Does  she  encourage  her  husband  with  the  future  delights  of 
the  company  of  these  harlots  of  the  Mahommedan  Paradise 
as  “the  true  sources  of  happiness?” 

Every  Christian  lady  should  refuse  to  receive  a  man  who 
disgraces  his  manhood  by  avowing  these  “filthy  dreams”  as 
his  faith.  It  matters  not  what  his  rank,  that  man  is  disgraced. 

Assistant  Rabban— “  What  shall  befall  them  who  have  reflected  with 
abhorrence  that  which  the  Prophet  hath  revealed?” 

I  am  one.  I  reflect  with  abhorrence  upon  the  lies  of 
Mohammed.  If  I  believed  them,  I  should  believe  that  not  a 
single  woman  here,  or  anywhere  upon  God’s  earth,  has  an 
immortal  spirit.  I  should  believe  that  you  women  were  just 
mere  beasts,  playthings  of  an  hour  or  a  day,  and  that  you  had 
no  eternity  of  being,  and  that  when  the  monsters  of  brutal  lust 
were  through  with  you,  then  you  died  like  dogs,  and  that  was 
the  end  of  you.  That  is  Mohammed’s  creed.  Is  that  a  right 
creed  for  a  Christian  President  or  any  other  Christian  man,  or 
an  honest  citizen,  even,  to  support  ? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Let  him  go  to  his  wife  with  that  creed,  and  I 
would  give  her  the  advice  now  that  she  has  a  right  to  a  divorce. 
I  would  help  her  to  get  it,  too.  He  is  a  dirty  dog  who  really 
avows  the  “revelations  ”  of  the  false  prophet  as  his  faith.  He 
is  one  of  those  of  whom  the  apostle  Jude  writes:  “Yet  in  like 
manner  these  also  in  their  dreamings  defile  the  flesh,  and  set 
at  naught  dominion,  and  rail  at  dignities  (or  glories),  .  .  .  like 
the  creatures  without  reason.” 

But  the  Assistant  Rabban  continues: 

“  Wherefore  their  works  shall  not  avail ;  do  they  not  travel  through  the 
earth  and  see  the  end  of  those  who  were  before  them?” 

Gong,  music,  verse. 

Priest— “Why  do  unbelievers  indulge  themselves  and  eat  as  beasts; 
shall  not  their  portion  be  a  torment?  Appeal  to  the  Prophets  for  the  truth.” 

Gong,  music,  verse. 


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Grand  Potentate— “  To  whom  shall  be  meted  out  the  boiling  waters  to 
drink,  that  they  shall  burst  their  bowels  and  shall  be  cast  into  molten  lava 
to  be  consumed?  The  infidels  who  wait  until  the  last  hour  of  justice. 

In  the  Creed  of  the  Mohammedan  the  Christian  is  an  infidel. 

Gong,  music,  verse.  . 

Chief  Rabban— “Let  us  be  of  the  number  of  those  who  bathe  in  the 
fountain  of  incorruptible  waters  and  rivers  of  milk,  the  taste  whereof 
changeth  not,  and  rivers  of  wine,  pleasant  and  purifying  to  those  who  drink, 
and  enter  into  the  vineyards  where  fruits  rare  and  plenty  ever  abound,  and 
no  evil  exists.” 

Dirty  dog!  He  wants  to  drink  milk  and  wine,  and  lie  down 
and  loaf  forever  by  the  River  of  Life! 

Gong,  music,  verse.  . 

Assistant  Rabban—"  He  who  follows  the  plain  declaration  of  his  dictator 
will  ever  avoid  those  whose  evil  works  have  been  dressed  for  them  by  the 
Devil  and  who  follow  up  their  own  lusts.” 

And  this  cant  is  uttered  in  the  face  of  what  the  Chief 
Rabban  has  just  said  about  “the  true  sources  of  happiness.” 

UNBLUSHING  MOHAMMEDANISM  IN  MYSTIC  SHRINE. 

Gong,  music,  verse. 

Priest— “There  are  Moslems  among  us;  there  are  others  who  swerve 
from  propriety;  but  whoso  seeketh  Islam  earnestly  seeks  true  direction; 
but  those  who  swerve  from  truth  and  justice  shall  merit  and  reap  abun¬ 
dance  of  chastisement.” 

What  kind  of  a  thing  is  this  for  a  Christian? 

Gong,  music,  verse. 

Grand  Potentate—"  Let  us  purify  one  another.” 

I  should  think  all  the  waters  of  Lake  Michigan  would  not 
purify  them.  (Laughter.) 

“There  are  two  highways  to  good  and  evil;  attempt  not  the  city  of 
destruction.  Be  ye  all  possessed  of  the  faculty  of  distinguishing  and  the 
power  of  choosing  wickedness  and  piety.  For  the  punishment  of  each  will 
be  equal  to  the  measure  of  his  sin.” 

Gong  and  music,  until  the  candidates,  arriving  at  the  East,  halt. 

Grand  Potentate — “Sons  of  the  Desert,  you  have  advanced  through  the 
preliminary  ceremonies  of  the  Nobility  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  as  far  as  it  is 
possible,  unobligated.  Before  advancing  further  in  your  course  you  will  be 
required  to  assume  a  most  powerful  and  binding  oath,  inseparably  uniting 
yourself  with  us,  and  when  once  taken  it  can  never  be  retracted  or  departed 
from.  But,  I  assure  you,  therein  is  not  contained  a  sentiment  exceptionable 
to  all  that  may  become  an  honest,  upright  man,  be  his  beliefs  what  they 
may.  Are  you  willing  to  assume  such  an  obligation?” 

Candidates — “lam.” 

Candidates  are  conducted  around  to  the  West  and  to  the  Altar  of  Obli¬ 
gation  amid  sound  of  gong,  drum  and  music.  Kneel  at  altar  with  bound 
arms  leaning  upon  the  top,  heads  bowed.  Grand  Potentate  strikes  thrice  to 
call  all  around  the  altar,  and  then  to  candidates:  “Repeat  after  me.” 

MOSLEM  OATH  OF  THE  MYSTIC  SHRINER. 

Here  is  the  obligation,  or  part  of  it.  I  do  not  care  to  read 
the  whole  of  it.  It  is  very  long. 

“  I  do  hereby,  upon  this  Bible,  and  on  the  mysterious  legend  of  the 
Koran,” — 

Now,  that  is  the  Mohammedan  Bible,  the  Koran. 


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“  I  do  hereby,  upon  this  Bible,  and  on  the  mysterious  legend  of  the  Koran , 
and  its  dedication  to  the  Mohammedan  faith ,  promise  and  swear  and  vow 
on  the  faith  and  honor  of  an  upright  man,  come  weal  or  woe,  adversity  or 
success,  that  I  will  never  reveal  any  secret  part  or  portion  whatsoever  of 
the  ceremonies  I  have  already  received,  that  are  about  to  be  communicated 
to  me,” — 

He  also  promises  to  obey  the  laws  and  submit  to  the  decrees 
of  the  Parent  Temple.  That  Parent  Temple  is  in  Syria  (Turkey 
in  Asia),  at  Aleppo,  it  is  said.  He  promises  to  obey  the  decrees 
of  the  Parent  Temple  and  also  the  Imperial  Grand  Council  of 
the  United  States  of  America,  and  so  on.  After  a  great  deal 
more  of  this  stuff,  he  says: 

GOD  THE  FATHER,  JESUS  THE  SON,  AND  THE  HOLY  SPIRIT  LEFT 

OUT  OF  THE  MYSTIC  SHRINE. 

“  In  wilful  violation  whereof  may  I  incur  the  fearful  penalty  of  having 
my  eyeballs  pierced  to  the  center  with  a  three-edged  blade,  my  feet  flayed 
and  I  be  forced  to  walk  the  hot  sands  upon  the  sterile  shores  of  the  Red 
Sea  until  the  flaming  sun  shall  strike  me  with  livid  plague,  and  may  Allah, 
the  god  of  Arab,  Moslem  and  Mohammedan,  the  god  of  our  fathers,  support 
me  to  the  entire  fulfilment  of  the  same,  Amen,  Amen,  Amen.” 

Where  is  Jesus  Christ  there?  Where  is  God  the  Father? 
Where  is  the  Holy  Spirit? 

Is  this  a  pledge  that  the  President  of  the  United  States 
ought  to  have  taken? 

Audience— “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  he  not  swear  before  the  Ever  Living  God 
when  he  took  the  oath  of  office?  Did  he  not  swear  as  a  Chris¬ 
tian  man?  Did  the  people  elect  a  Mohammedan  to  office? 

Voices — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  the  people  expect  this  man  to  swear  a 
Mohammedan  oath? 

Voices — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Some  may  say  that  he  did  not  mean  it.  If  he 
did  not  mean  it,  he  was  a  fool  to  say  it,  and  if  he  did  mean  it, 
he  was  a  liar,  and  deceived  the  people  by  representing  himself 
as  a  Christian,  when  he  was  a  candidate  for  the  presidency. 

Grand  Potentate — “  In  token  of  your  sincerity,  salute  the  Sacred  Book, 

the  Bible.”  ,  . 

Priest— “Unbind  the  Sons  of  the  Desert.  They  are  now  of  noble  birth. 
The  rays  of  the  hot,  flaming  sun  upon  the  sterile  shores  of  the  Red  Sea  are 
strong  and  more  scathing  than  the  hempen  thong.” 

Nobles  are  all  seated  by  the  Grand  Potentate’s  striking  once.  Candi¬ 
dates  are  ordered  to  arise  and  their  wrists  are  unbound. 

Priest— “Our  Oriental  will  now  conduct  the  Sons  of  the  Desert  to  our 
purifying  cavern  in  the  South.  It  is  the  fountain  of  Mecca.  Let  them  there 
wash  their  hands  in  innocency,  cleansing  themselves  of  the  snares  of  sin  and 
vice  that  may  have  surrounded  them,  and  let  them  be  returned  to  us  free 
from  the  stains  of  iniquity.” 

What  muck!  What  can  cleanse  away  our  sin? 

Voices — “The  blood  of  Jesus.” 

Dr.  Dowie — What  can  make  us  whole  again? 

Voices — “Nothing  but  the  blood  of  Jesus.” 


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ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


Dr.  Dowie — What  cleanseth  from  all  sin? 

Voices — “Nothing  but  the  blood  of  Jesus.” 

Dr.  Dowie— But  these  traitors  or  fools,  or  both,  say,  “It  is 
the  fountain  of  Mecca— go  there  and  come  back  free.” 

Grand  Potentate — “  My  friends,  it  is  with  pleasure  that  I  extend  to  you 
the  greeting  of  the  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  congratulate  you  upon 
having  thus  far  passed  the  ceremonies  of  our  order.” 

“  With  this  admonition  I  yield  you  up  to  our  Guide  and  his  cohorts,  who 
will  conduct  you  to  the  anteroom  and  blindfold  you,  and  one  by  one  you 
will  be  subjected  to  the  Moslem  test  of  courage.” 

DEATH  SOMETIMES  THE  RESULT  OF  MYSTIC  SHRINE  SECRET  WORK. 

“  And  should  an  unforeseen  disaster  come,  we  are  in  duty  bound  to  honor 
and  protect  those  who  are  left  near  and  dear  to  you.” 

A  noble  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  did  die  during  initiation  not 
long  ago,  in  Minneapolis.  A  very  large  sum  of  money  had 
to  be  paid  to  buy  off  the  widow  by  these  scoundrels  who  broke 
his  neck. 

The  following  is  a  letter  which  I  read  to  you  during  a  dis¬ 
course  on  Secret  Societies  delivered  in  this  Tabernacle,  Lord’s 
Day  afternoon,  May  23,  1897: 

My  Dear  Dr.  Dowie  : — I  understand  you  are  to  have  an  anti-Secret 
Society  meeting  next  Sunday.  I  would  like  to  call  your  attention  to  an 
incident  that  happened  last  December  in  Minneapolis. 

A  man  died  while  being  initiated  into  the  Mystic  Shrine.  One  who 
was  present  told  me  that  the  man  was  blindfolded,  and  they  put  a  big  pair 
of  duck  pants  on  him.  To  this  they  attached  a  rope  with  a  pulley  over¬ 
head.  He  was  then  pulled  up  to  the  rafters,  about  twenty-five  feet,  when 
the  trigger  was  let  go,  and  the  man  dropped  into  a  blanket  held  by  several. 
When  he  dropped  he  was  dead. 

The  Coroner  and  several  doctors  being  present,  went  to  work  and  held 
a  post-mortem  examination  and  decided  that  the  man  died  from  heart 
failure. 

The  Coroner  was  one  of  the  men  who  assisted  in  his  murder.  The  doc¬ 
tors  had  assisted  in  his  murder,  and  right  there  in  the  place  where  the  man 
died  they  held  an  inquest,  and  they  got  a  jury  to  agree  upon  that  verdict: 
that  the  man  had  died  of  heart  failure.  They  took  the  man’s  body  home 
by  a  special  train.  They  buried  him  with  honors,  and  they  got  the  poor 
miserable  widow  of  the  man  to  sign  a  letter  of  thanks  to  them  for  murdering 
her  husband. 

The  Grand  Potentate  then  continues: 

“  Ere  you  depart,  we  bid  you  God-speed  and  adieu.” 

Priest  (approaching  to  East  and  raising  both  hands) — “And  may  Adah 
protect  and  support  you,  that  you  be  not  cast  into  ‘  al  hotama’  (hell).  Now 
let  our  secret  vaults  open  to  their  width,  that  the  vapors  of  damp  stagna¬ 
tion  may  pass  away.  Open  the  passage  to  the  desert  and  disperse  our 
trusty  Arabs  in  full  array  for  the  Moslem  test.  Away!” 

Candidates  conducted  out  under  solemn  music  to  be  prepared  for  the 
second  section. 

Each  candidate  is  in  the  custody  of  an  Arabic  soldier.  They  are  seated 
and  a  drawing  of  lots  takes  place  if  there  is  more  than  one  candidate,  and 
each  takes  his  turn  for  initiation.  They  are  put  through  blindfolded,  1,  2, 
and  3,  etc.,  according  to  number,  six  being  the  highest  number  actually 
initiated  any  one  night.  The  others,  if  any,  are  secretly  taken  aside,  the 
blinder  removed,  and  they  witness  the  initiation  of  the  others  and  have  only 
to  take  the  obligations  themselves. 


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In  the  Preparation  Room  they  are  told:  “A  rough  and  rugged  road  is 
before  you,  and  it  is  beset  with  danger  and  with  difficulties.  Your  life  will 
be  threatened,  and  you  may  loose  it.  But  remember  those  who  die  in  the 
faith  will  be  resurrected  in  glory;  thereiore  summon  to  your  aid  courage — 
that  truly  Masonic  qualification,  that  puts  on  a  fearless  and  courageous 
attitude;  that  scorns  the  acts  of  a  coward,  who  but  apes  the  conduct  of  a 
hero.  Therefore  suffer  yourselves  to  be  initiated  with  all  the  forms  and 
ceremonies  of  this  ancient  and  honorable  institution.  Do  you  all  assent  to 
this  trial  of  fortitude — that  truly  Masonic  qualification?” 

Candidates — “  1  do.” 

Nos.  i,  2  and  3  are  first  led  into  the  room  with  hands  pinioned  behind 
them,  blindfolded;  when  they  are  put  on  the  journey  over  the  “  Hot  Sand” 
(rugged  road),  each  with  an  Arab  Soldier  on  each  side,  pricking  him  with 
his  saber  to  hurry  him  along,  and  when  one  falls  down,  a  whack  with  the 
flat  of  a  saber  causes  him  to  arise.  After  they  have  gone  around  two  or 
three  times  two  are  selected  to  escape  enemies  who  they  are  told  are 
approaching  on  a  mission  of  murdering  all. 

The  next  is  the  most  shameful;  but  whose  is  the  shame, 
mine  for  reading  it  or  theirs  for  doing  it? 

Voices — “Theirs  for  doing  it.” 

Dr.  Dowie — I  will  put  them  to  shame.  Ought  I  not  to? 

Voices — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — I  am  ashamed  to  do  it,  but  I  will  do  it:  for  I 
believe  God  calls  upon  me  to  do  it — cost  what  it  will.  God’s 
Word  declares  that  we  are  to  “have  no  fellowship  with  the 
Unfruitful  Works  of  Darkness,  but  rather  even  reprove  (or 
convict)  them;  for  the  things  which  are  done  by  them  in 
secret  it  is  a  shame  even  to  speak  of.” 

And  yet  to  make  the  “reproof”  effectual,  and  to  convict 
the  hypocrites,  there  are  times  when  God’s  Messenger  must 
speak  of  these  things.  Fear  seems  to  paralyze  every 
tongue. 

This  is  the  time  when  the  Works  of  Darkness  must  be 
“  convicted.” 

FOUL,  VULGAR  AND  DISGUSTING  RITE  IN  THE  MYSTIC  SHRINE. 

The  bung-hole  test.  The  large  metal  cylinder  is  then  produced, 
stretched  out  about  thirty  feet.  Each  candidate  is  asked  if  he  ever  was 
called  a  coward,  or  turned  his  back  on  an  enemy.  He  is  prompted  to  say, 
“No;  I  perform  all  I  undertake,  and  never  back  down  or  out.”  They  are 
then  led  to  opposite  ends  of  the  big  cylinder,  caused  to  enter, — 

Just  think  of  President  McKinley  crawling  in!  (Laughter.) 

They  are  then  led  to  opposite  ends  of  the  big  cylinder,  caused  to  enter 
and  are  told  to  hurry  up,  as  the  enemy  is  approaching.  The  center  of  the 
cylinder  contains  a  strong  network  of  cord  or  wire,  preventing  either  from 
passing  through.  They  meet  in  the  middle  of  the  cylinder  and  strive  to 
pass  each  other,  while  the  Arabs  pound  on  the  outside  with  clubs  and  swords 
till  they  are  satisfied,  when  they  slide  an  opening  in  the  door  and  ask  if  they 
wish  to  go  on  or  back  out.  They  of  course  back  down  and  out,  when  they 
are  given  a  lecture  on  their  assurance,  and  told  never  to  be  too  sure  of  a 
thing  till  they  have  tried  it.  They  are  one  by  one  taken  into  another  apart¬ 
ment,  often  stretched  out  on  a  plank  to  rest. 

Now,  I  just  hate  to  do  this  in  this  Tabernacle  of  the  Most 
High  God,  where  Christ  is  proclaimed,  and  the  Holy  Spirit 


102  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

has  brought  multitudes  to  find  in  God  a  full  salvation  for  spirit, 
soul  and  body. 

While  in  this  position  a  small  dog,  or  one  who  can  imitate  a  dog,  is 
caused  to  give  a  sharp  yelp,  just  after  a  few  drops  of  warm  water  have  been 
squirted  on  the  candidate’s  face,  with  the  remark,  “Take  that  dog  out,  he 
has  just - ed  in  the  face  of  Mr.  — * 

Is  that  not  shameful?  Oh  my  God,  is  it  not  disgusting? 

Voices — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Women!  women!  Will  you  ever  have  any¬ 
thing  to  do  with  the  Mystic  Shriners? 

Voices — “  No.” 

—then  a  general  laugh  takes  place  and  the  candidate  is  shown  the  trick. 

Truly,  truly  is  it  written  that  “  Fools  make  a  mock  of  Sin.” 

But  there  won’t  be  a  “general  laugh”  before  the  Great 
White  Throne  of  God  on  the  Day  of  Judgment. 

You  wretches  can  laugh  each  other  into  hell,  but  you  cannot 
laugh  yourselves  out. 

The  “Bumper”  is  next  used.  A  box  about  six  feet  high;  perpendicular 
on  one  side,  and  concave  on  the  other  side.  A  ladder  is  then  placed  on  the 
concave  side.  The  candidate  ascends  the  ladder  and  is  seated  on  the  top, 
his  legs  hanging  over  the  concave  side,  T  hen  he  is  told  to  take  hold  of  the 
end  of  a  large  rope,  about  two  feet  long,  held  up  by  a  small  string  or  thread. 
He  is  told  under  no  circumstances  to  let  go  of  the  rope,  which  he  firmly 
grasps,  when  the  box  falls  to  pieces,  and  he  is  shot  down  the  concave  side 
of  the  box,  thumping  his  head  and  buttocks  on  a  partition  that  is  fixed  to 
receive  him. 

Elegant  position  for  the  President  of  the  United  States,  is 
it  not?  My  good  Lord!  What  a  disgrace! 

He  is  then  conducted  to  the  Grand  Potentate,  whom  he  is  commanded 
to  approach  with  humble  and  great  reverence,  stooping  very  low  on  his 
knees,  his  head  near  the  ground,  his  buttocks  elevated,  where  he  receives 
the  “  Grand  Salaam,”  that  is  a  blow,  on  his  buttocks  with  two  pieces  of  board— 

What  a  dignified  position  for  the  President  of  the  United 
States.  (Laughter.)  Did  he  really  receive  the  Grand  Salaam? 

FURTHER  AND  STILL  MORE  WICKED  AND  SHAMEFUL  SECRET  WORK. 

—between  which  are  placed  some  torpedoes  that  explode  with  a  loud 
report  when  they  come  together.  This  is  called  the  Grand  Salaam,  or 
stroke  of  introduction.  He  is  then  introduced  to  the  u>rand  Potentate, 
near  whom  is  a  galvanic  battery,  so  arranged  (under  the  carpet)  that  when 
the  candidate  is  introduced  to  the  Grand  Potentate,  he  receives  a  severe 
electric  shock.  All  those  to  whose  lot  it  fell,  in  the  casting  of  lots,  are 
allowed  to  come  into  the  room  and  be  seated. 

After  a  social  meeting  with  the  members,  each  of  which  pass  arouna 
the  room  and  are  personally  introduced  to  the  officers  and  members  present 
as  well  as  the  Arabian  soldiers,  two  of  the  best  boxers  are  left  with  the 
candidate  talking,  when  one  says  to  the  other,  “I  will  bet  you  a  dollar  that  I 
can  guess  nearer  to  this  brother’s  age  than  you  can.”  The  other  takes  the 
bet.  The  money  is  placed  in  the  hands  of  another  Noble.  The  bettor, 
after  they  have  made  some  ridiculous  guesses,  asks  the  age  of  the  person. 
When  he  tells  his  age,  they  get  into  a  quarrel  about  it;  each  gives  the  other 
the  lie.  A  challenge  is  then  given  and  accepted.  A  ring  is  formed,  two  of 
the  candidates  are  chosen  as  seconds,  and  as  soon  as  the  gloves  are  pro¬ 
duced  (large  boxing  gloves)  the  Grand  Potentate  appears,  stops  the  fight, 


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fines  each  of  the  fighters  One  Hundred  Dollars,  and  declares  that  the  sec¬ 
onds  (candidates)  must  fight  it  out  for  their  respective  clients.  That  is, 
supposing  A  and  B  to  be  professional  boxers,  A’s  second  must  fight  with  B, 
and  B’s  second  with  A. 

RUFFIANLY  SPORT  OF  MYSTIC  SHRINERS. 

A  ring  is  formed  and  the  novice  candidates,  meeting,  of  course,  with 
some  skilled  Noble,  get  some  rather  hard  knocks,  which  the  Nobles  and 
other  candidates  enjoy. 

While  the  fighting  is  going  on,  some  Noble  makes  complaint  that  he 
has  been  robbed,  his  pocket  picked.  He  had  previously  put  a  package  or 
some  valuable  article  in  the  pocket  or  clothes  of  one  of  the  candidates.  A 
general  search  follows;  the  stolen  property  is  found  on  a  candidate, 
who  has  not  been  exercised  much,  and  he  is  at  once  charged  with  the  theft, 
is  pitched  onto  by  two  or  three  of  the  Nobles,  roughly  hustled  out  of  the 
room  for  trial,  stripped  of  his  clothing  except  a  pair  of  drawers;  he  is  then 
blindfolded,  and  after  being  led  around  the  room,  is  seated  on  a  large 
sponge  filled  with  ice  water,  when  the  news  comes  that  he  has  been  forgiven 
ori  account  of  his  good  character,  which  has  just  been  received  by  tele¬ 
graph  (possibly  from  Washington!);  he  is  led  out  and  invested  with  his 
former  clothing. 

While  the  foregoing  is  being  enacted,  candidates  who  have  escaped 
the  prize  fight,  etc.,  are  conducted  into  another  room,  where  they  either 
find  several  members  disguised  as  women,  or  find  them  discussing  an 
expected  visit  of  “Lady  Nobles  of  the  Shrine,”  or  they  are  squarely  told 
that  there  is  to  be  such  a  visit  that  eve7iiiig ,  and  a  committee  may  be 
appointed  to  receive  them  in  a  proper  manner. 

UNSPEAKABLE  FILTHINESS  IN  THOUGHT,  WORD  AND  DEED. 

Candidate  is  stripped  to  shirt,  drawers  and  slippers,  blindfolded,  and 
led  around  the  room  several  times,  when  he  is  halted. 

Conductor — “This  is  the  place  where  our  brethren  stop  to  sprinkle  the 
Devil’s  Pass  with  urine.  You  will  contribute  a  few  drops  of  urine  to  com¬ 
memorate  the  time  and  place  where  all  who  pass  here  renounce  the  wiles 
and  evils  of  the  world  to  worship  at  the  Shrine  of  Islam.  Only  a  few  drops 
will  do.” 

Candidate  begins  to  obey  instructions,  when  the  blinder  is  jerked  from 
his  eyes  and  he  beholds  before  him  a  group  disguised  as  women,  with 
bonneted  faces  and  capes  showing,  the  rest  of  their  bodies  hid  by  a  screen. 
He  is  allowed  to  escape  from  the  room  amid  a  roar  of  laughter  from  the 
onlookers. 

Is  that  not  shameful?  I  ask  again — I  have  asked  it  whilst 
preparing  this  discourse,  and  especially  all  this  day — can  it  be 
that  William  McKinley,  President  of  the  United  States,  did 
these  things  when  he  was  initiated  as  a  Mystic  Shriner,  or  was 
even  present  and  saw  them  done  to  a  fellow  candidate?  If  he 
did  either,  how  can  we  feel  any  other  than  that  the  most  hor¬ 
rible  disgrace  has  come  upon  the  whole  land?  How  can  any 
honest  man  ever  vote  for  such  a  man  again?  I  hate  to  say  it, 
but  it  is  voting  for  a  man  who  has  gone  down  into  the 
depths  of  low,  disgusting  vice  and  dishonoring  his  own  man¬ 
hood. 

The  many  thousands  of  Zion  voted  for  him,  almost,  if  not 
quite,  to  a  man,  at  the  last  presidential  election,  approving  of 
his  financial  and  fiscal  policy. 


104  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

But,  should  he  become  a  candidate  again  this  year,  how  can 
I  ask  Christian  men  to  vote  for  him  and  Christian  women  to 
pray  for  his  success? 

I  simply  cannot  if  he  remains  amongst  these  incarnate 
devils,  and  dirty  devils  at  that,  who  have  the  impudence  to 
call  themselves  “Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.” 

The  whole  thing  continues,  and  there  is  a  sham  Execution. 
There  is  blood  for  blood  and  life  for  life.  There  is  a  Vigilance 
Inquisition;  one  of  the  candidates  being  mock-beheaded. 

A  member  masquerading  as  a  woman  has  a  crescent  cut 
upon  his  bare  breast.  The  blood  seems  to  be  running  out. 
They  drink  the  so-called  blood,  which  is  red  wine. 

MOCK  EXECUTIONS  IN  THE  MYSTIC  SHRINE. 

Priest  (holding  up  sceptre) — “And  now  may  justice,  peace  and  mercy 
abide  with  you.  Strike!”  The  axe  falls,  culprit  tumbles  on  floor,  execu¬ 
tioner  stoops,  lifts  black  cloth  from  false  head  and  covers  head  of  culprit, 
seizes  false  head  by  hair,  raises  it  to  view  and  exclaims:  “Nemesis!” 

Candidate  is  hoodwinked  and  made  to  approach  the  block  and  lay  his 
head  upon  it. 

Priest—"  Hold!  Executioner,  mark  this  stranger’s  neck  with  the  scime- 
ter,  but  do  not  slay  him.” 

The  headsman  slaps  the  candidate  on  the  neck  with  a  damp  towel  and 
he  is  at  once  taken  by  force  and  placed  in  the  hammock  or  canvas,  carried 
and  placed  in  a  coffin  at  the  East  end  of  the  catafalque,  while  the  culprit 
and  the  head  are  borne  into  an  outer  room.  Officers  all  return. 

Potentate — “Thus  doth  the  evil  doer  and  the  malefactor  meet  with 
*  Nemesis  ’  at  the  Inquisition  of  Mystic  Shrine,  and  it  now  becomes  our  duty 
to  deposit  the  result  of  our  vigilance  in  the  tomb,  isolated  from  the  eyes  of 
the  meddling  world,  a  fit  abiding  place  for  the  remains  of  the  unfaithful. 
Most  Noble  Oriental  Guide,  lest  the  secret  clasp  of  our  Mystic  Catafalque 
be  prematurely  known  to  our  novices,  let  them  be  again  hoodwinked,  that 
their  hearts  may  be  taught  secrecy  and  their  tongues  silence,  ere  they  are 
entrusted  with  the  secrets  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.” 

Candidates  all  blindfolded.  The  coffin  is  then  stood  on  end  or  placed 
at  an  angle  with  head  on  chair,  at  end  of  table  or  tomb,  toward  the  East; 
the  block  and  executioner  placed  at  the  West  side.  The  culprit  again 
elevated  by  the  noose,  skeleton  executioner  at  his  side;  the  woman  seated 
at  the  North;  officers  and  members  gathered  around  table  in  tableaux  and 
lights  turned  up;  black  cloth  and  frame  removed  from  banquet  table  and 
all  is  in  readiness  for  the  finale. 

Grand  Potentate — “  Now  let  us  rejoice  that  iniquity  has  lain  her  proud 
idol  in  the  dust  and  that  justice  has  triumphed  over  sin.  And  ever  thus  let 
our  light  so  shine  before  men  that  they  may  behold  our  good  works.” 

That  is  a  blasphemous  misapplication  of  the  words  of  Jesus.* 
This  is  the  order  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 

I  have  a  statement  made  by  one  of  these  Mystic  Shriners 
that  in  Cincinnati  there  were  no  less  than  twenty  ministers  of 
the  Gospel  present  at  a  Banquet  following  a  gathering  of 
Mystic  Shriners  in  that  city. 

HORRID  SCENES  AT  MYSTIC  SHRINE  BANQUET. 

Gong;  hoodwinks  removed;  music  and  general  jubilee  at  banquet. 
Candidate  is  provided  and  eats  and  drinks  from  coffin,  the  culprit  also  from 
the  gallows,  as  also  the  female,  still  in  costume,  at  the  North,  etc. 

After  general  banquet  the  meeting  is  closed  in  a  formal  manner. 


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Had  these  twenty  ministers  of  the  Gospel  any  place  there? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Were  they  not  traitors  to  God  and  to  His  Son, 
Jesus  Christ? 

Audience — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — And  of  the  Gospel  that  they  profess. 

Will  Overseer  Mason,  who  knows  the  facts,  kindly  tell  me 
some  of  the  things  which  were  provided  for  those  who  were 
present,  including  the  twenty  so-called  “ministers  of  the 
Gospel?” 

Overseer  Mason— “One  bottle  of  Mumm’s  extra  dry  cham¬ 
pagne  ;  one  bottle  of  wine  ;  one  bottle  of  beer ;  three  good  cigars.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Three  infernal  cigars  (laughter)  at  each  plate. 

Elder  Stevens— “  Doctor,  when  the  Mystic  Shriners  met  at 
Detroit,  the  Cadillac  put  in  eleven  new  bartenders  and  the 
Russell  nineteen  bartenders.  I  saw  ten  ministers  I  knew  march¬ 
ing  with  the  Mystic  Shriners  on  the  street.” 

Dr.  Dowie — To  whom  have  the  ministers  of  the  churches 
gone  when  they  patronize  these  abominations? 

Audience — “The  Devil.” 

Dr.  Dowie — I  declare  to  you  before  my  God  tonight  I  never 
felt  so  ashamed  in  all  my  life;  but  I  vowed  before  Him  that  I 
would  tell  this  thing,  and  that  I  would  tell  it  in  the  House  of 
God  to  the  shame  of  the  President  of  the  United  States,  if  he 
continues  to  be  a  Mystic  Shriner,  and  to  the  eternal  disgrace 
of  every  minister  who  has  joined  in  this  infernal  thing.  I  do 
not  care  if  I  lose  my  own  head  for  doing  it,  I  will  tell  it,  and  I 
will  print  it. 

Are  not  these  Degrees  of  Devilry? 

Audience — “  Yes.” 

CALL. 

Dr.  Dowie — Every  one  in  this  house  who  hates  and  renounces 
all  these  works  of  darkness,  stand  and  tell  God  so.  (With  some 
exceptions,  the  audience  arose.) 

I  am  ashamed  to  see  some  women  sitting.  Shame  to  the 
men  who  are  sitting.  I  think  it  still  more  shameful  for  the 
women. 

PRAYER  OF  CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus’  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 
power  to  do  right,  to  abstain  from  all  association  with  these  infernal  works 
of  darkness;  to  reprove  them,  to  destroy  them  to  the  utmost  extent  of  my 
power.  Have  mercy  upon  the  wicked  men,  and  worse  women,  who  associ- 
ate  themselves  with  such  things,  for  Jesus’  sake.  Have  mercy  upon  men  in 
this  audience  tonight  who  are  ministerially  corrupt  and  are  sitting  still, 
r  or  Jesus  sake  take  away  these  false  shepherds,  and  destroy  these  false 
churches,  and  save  the  people,  in  Jesus  Name.  Amen.  (All  repeat  the 
prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Did  you  mean  it? 

Audience — “  Yes.” 


106  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  stand  by  me  in  this  fight? 

Audience _ “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie— May  God  help  you.  (Amen.) 

I  have  never  felt  so  angry  in  all  my  life  as  I  have  felt 
tonight.  I  feel  I  have  been  tricked  and  deceived  into  helping 
to  put  into  the  chair  of  the  United  States  a  man  who  could  be 
guilty  of  this  thing.  I  am  ashamed  of  it.  Let  what  I  have 

said  go  to  Washington.  . 

Tens  of  thousands  of  Zion’s  friends  will  wait  and  watch  to 
see  what  the  Mystic  Shriner  in  the  Executive  Mansion  at 
Washington  will  do. 

Their  future  action  will  depend  upon  his. 

If  he  is  silent,  and  makes  no  signs  of  repentance,  I  believe 
that  not  ci  single  vote  will  be  cast  for  him  by  them  again  if  he  is  a 

presidential  candidate.  .  .  £  ,  . 

He  owes  God  and  the  Nation  a  public  renunciation  ot  this 
abominable  compound  of  Masonry,  Mohammedanism  and 
Mystic  filth. 

As  God’s  Messenger,  I  demand  it. 

The  meeting  was  closed  by  Dr.  Dowie  pronouncing  the 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil,  and  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly,  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  corning  ot  our 
Lord  Tesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


SIXTH  DISCOURSE. 

Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Thursday  Evening,  May  17,  1900. 

The  meeting  was  opened  by  singing. 

SCRIPTURE  READING  AND  EXPOSITION. 

The  General  Overseer  then  read  in  the  Gospel  according  to 
St.  Matthew,  twenty-sixth  chapter,  beginning  at  the  thirty- 
sixth  verse,  and  commenting  as  follows  upon  the  fifty-sixth 
verse: 

But  all  this  is  come  to  pass,  that  the  Scriptures  of  the  prophets  might 
be  fulfilled.  Then  all  the  disciples  left  Him  and  fled. 

What  a  terrible  word  that  is.  Every  one  of  them  forsook 
Him  and  fled.  Bonds,  Tortures,  and  Death  were  there,  and 
they  could  not  face  it.  Can  we?  It  will  come  to  that. 

The  Theocratic  Principle  is  ineradicable  in  Christianity;  for 
Christianity  demands  the  preaching  of  the  Gospel  of  the 
Kingdom  of  God,  the  declaration  of  the  Supremacy  of  Christ. 

Christianity  demands  a  practical  embodiment  of  theocratic 
practice,  and  we  say:  “We  will  never  rest  content  until  the 


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Law  of  God  is  inscribed  in  the  statute  book  of  every  nation 
under  heaven,  and  is  the  Supreme  Law.” 

The  World  will  never  stand  that.  The  World  will  fight  it. 
It  must  fight  it.  The  Flesh  will  never  stand  that;  the  Devil 
will  never  stand  it.  The  consequence  is,  that  true  Christianity 
will  arouse  an  antagonism  which  will  compel  the  Devil,  as  his 
last  resort,  to  do  what  he  has  done  so  long:  to  kill. 

Where  will  we  be  then? 

I  think  I  know.  I  have  not  run  away  yet,  and  I  have  never 
felt  it  in  my  heart  to  run  away. 

I  have  heard  the  whizz  of  the  bullet  very  close  to  my  ear. 

Where  will  we  be  should  the  trial  come?  We  do  know  the 
Kingdom  of  God  will  not  be  established  upon  this  earth  peace¬ 
fully.  “You  can  establish  a  Methodist  Church  peacefully  any¬ 
where,  and  the  Devil  will  give  a  large  subscription. 

As  I  read,  that  scene  tonight  is  very  real  to  to  me.  It  hap¬ 
pened  only  yesterday: 

One  day  is  with  the  Lord  as  a  thousand  years,  and  a  thousand  years  as 
one  day. 

These  things  happened  in  God’s  Yesterday. 

They  will  happen  again  in  God’s  Today. 

Beyond  lies  the  Forever  with  the  Lord  and  Eternal  Victory. 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by  Overseer  Mason;  also  by  the 
General  Overseer. 

The  announcements  were  then  made,  during  the  course  of 
which  the  General  Overseer  made  the  following  remarks: 

Now,  one  of  the  things  which  the  Freemasons  and  others 
say  concerning  those  of  our  number  who  are  exposing  diaboli¬ 
cal  wickedness  in  these  systems  is:  How  can  you  believe  a 
man  who  breaks  his  oath? 

HOW  COULD  YOU  BELIEVE  A  MAN  WHO  KEPT  A  MASONIC  OATH? 

That  is  a  much  more  pertinent  question.  Would  it  not  have 
been  better  if  Herod  had  broken  his  bad  oath? 

Audience — “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Would  it  not  be  a  wicked  thing  for  a  man  to 
keep  an  oath  of  that  kind? 

Audience — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — That  is  the  kind  of  an  oath  a  Freemason  takes, 
an  oath  to  murder,  an  oath  to  kill.  It  is  wicked  to  make  it, 
and  it  is  still  more  wicked  to  keep  it.  I  am  going  to  show  on 
this  night  week  that  it  is  godly  to  break  it. 

The  vilest  thing  a  man  can  do  is  to  say  that  he  will  not 
break  an  oath,  or  break  a  promise.  I  will  break  every  promise 
which  the  Devil  has  tricked  me  into  making. 

Break  every  bad  oath  you  ever  made. 

If  you  have  promised  to  break  your  wife’s  head,  break  the 
oath,  but  do  not  break  her  head.  (Laughter.) 


Io8  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


What  a  ridiculous  thing  it  is  to  suppose  that  when  a  man 
finds  that  he  has  made  a  bad  oath,  he  cannot  back  out  of  it. 
If  he  does  not,  he  is  a  sinner. 


BETRAYERS  WHO  KISS  THE  CHRIST,  AND  SELL 

HIM  TO  HIS  ENEMIES. 


The  General  Overseer  then  delivered  the  following  discourse : 

INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept¬ 
able  in  Thy  sight,  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  oh  Lord,  my  Strength  and 
my  Redeemer. 

I  will  use  for  my  text  these  words  in  the  twenty-sixth 
chapter  of  the  Gospel  according  to  St.  Matthew,  the  forty- 
ninth  verse : 

TEXT. 

And  straightway  he  came  to  Jesus,  and  said,  Hail,  Rabbi;  and  kissed 
Him. 

The  first  word  in  the  first  oath  of  the  Masonic  order  is 
“Hail,”  the  word  of  the  betrayer,  Judas  Iscariot. 

The  Entered  Apprentice  when  he  takes  the  oath,  says;  “I 
will  always  Hail,”  after  the  introductory  words. 

He  says  : 

I  do  most  solemnly  and  sincerly  promise  and  swear  that  I  will  always 
Hail,  ever  conceal  and  never  reveal  any  of  the  secret  arts,  parts  or  points 
of  the  hidden  mysteries  of  Freemasonry. 

THE  FIRST  WORD  IN  JUDAS*  BETRAYAL  THE  FIRST  WORD  IN 

THE  MASONIC  OATH. 

Do  you  not  think  it  is  very  significant  that  the  word  which 
was  the  first  word  in  the  betrayal  of  our  Lord  and  Master 
Jesus  Christ  in  the  garden  of  Gethsemane  by  the  apostate 
hypocrite,  thief,  liar  and  betrayer,  Judas  Iscariot,  should 
be  the  first  word  of  the  Oath  in  the  First  Degree  of  Free¬ 
masonry? 

“I  will  always  Hail;  I  will  always  kiss  my  Master  in  the 
Methodist  pulpit  on  the  Sunday,  and  I  will  be  sure  to  betray 
Him  every  chance  I  get  all  the  week.  I  will  always  Hail.” 

I  take  tonight  just  that  word  “Hail”  for  my  text. 

Is  it  true  that  Masonic  professed  Christians,  be  they  laymen 
or  be  they  officers  or  Bishops — is  it  true  that  in  Masonry  they 
betray  their  Master  with  a  kiss? 

Is  it  true  that  in  Masonry  they  are  selling  Him  to  His 
enemies? 

One  of  our  number  was  met  by  a  Freemason  today.  Our 
brother  has  taken  part  in  this  Church  before  in  exposing  Free¬ 
masonry,  and  he  is  going  to  take  part  again.  This  Mason  told 


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him  that  his  friends  wanted  to  warn  him  ere  he  went  too  far 
in  breaking  his  Masonic  vow.  This  man  was  an  Introductory, 
Consistory  and  Mystic  Shriner,  the  last  of  which,  as  we  showed 
you  on  Tuesday  night,  is  the  dirtiest  Shrine  of  all  the  filthy 
Shrines  of  Secretism. 

What  kind  of  a  man  was  this  who  brought  the  threat  to 
Conductor  Rice?  He  is  an  avowed  Buddhist.  An  American 
by  birth,  I  suppose,  he  does  not  hesitate  to  vow  that  he  is  a 
Buddhist.  And  yet  Methodist  ministers  in  Chicago  have  the 
audacity  and  mendacity  to  say  that  Masonry  promotes  Chris¬ 
tianity. 

There  is  no  real  personal  God  in  Buddhism.  How  can 
there  be,  when  the  whole  object  and  aim  is  to  get  into  a 
state  of  unconscious  existence  called  Nirvana,  in  which  a 
man  shall  pass  away  and  be  lost  as  a  drop  of  water  is  in  the 
ocean? 

I  do  not  blame  such  a  man  half  so  much  as  I  do  those  who 
are  associated  with  him  in  Masonry  and  who,  hypocritically  for 
the  most  part,  profess  to  be  Christians. 

WHAT  DOES  BETRAYING  OUR  MASTER  WITH  A  KISS  IN  THESE 

DAYS  MEAN? 

What  does  selling  Him  to  His  enemies  mean? 

Suppose  I  stand  here  tonight  and  plead  in  the  Name  of  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  for  your  Repentance  toward  God,  for  your 
Faith  in  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  for  your  Obedience  to  Him. 
Suppose  that  I  told  you,  as  I  have  so  often  told  you,  that  the 
one  thing  which  God  demands  is  an  absolute,  unquestioning 
allegiance  to  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  that  Christ  is  All  and 
in  All,  the  Alpha  and  Omega;  that  He  is  the  Way  to  the 
Father.  Suppose  I  told  you  that  there  was  only  this  One  Medi¬ 
ator  between  God  and  man,  the  Man  Christ  Jesus,  and  that  He 
is  the  Propitiation  for  our  sins;  and  not  for  our  sins  only,  but 
also  for  the  sins  of  the  whole  world.  Suppose  I  taught  that  in 
Him  was  life,  and  that  He  was  the  Eternal  God,  the  Word  who 
became  flesh,  and  that  there  is  no  other  Name  among  men 
given  under  heaven  whereby  we  must  be  saved.  Is  that  not 
the  teaching  of  professed  Christian  ministers  in  the  denomi¬ 
nations? 

Audience — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Yet  many  a  man  of  them  walks  away  from  the 
place  where  he  has  proclaimed  these  truths,  and  the  very  next 
night  walks  into  a  room,  divested  of  all  the  clothing  with 
which  he  entered,  clothed  in  the  miserable  underwear  which 
the  lodge  provides,  with  the  cable-tow  around  his  neck,  and  a 
hoodwink  on  his  eyes.  There  he  declares  that  he  comes  in 
“darkness,  helplessness  and  ignorance,  having  been  wandering 
amid  the  errors  and  covered  over  with  the  pollutions  of  the 


IIO  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

outward  and  profane  world,”  now  inquiring  at  the  door  of  a 
Masonic  Lodge  seeking  the*  new  birth;  regeneration  in  whose 
name?  In  the  Name  of  Jesus  Christ? 

Audience — “No.”  .  .  ,  , 

Dr  Dowie— In  a  name  which  is  never  mentioned  by  a 

Christian.  It  is  named  by  a  traitor ;  it  is  named  by  a  betrayer ; 
it  is  named  by  one  who  sells  Christ  to  His  enemies,  but  it 
is  never  named,  except  in  utmost  abhorrence  and  contempt,  by 
a  Christian— the  name,  the  omnific  name,  Mah-hah-bone ! 

All  the  ceremonies  are  to  represent— what?  What  I  read 
to  you  last  Tuesday,  the  Point  within  the  Circle,  the  Phallic 

^  The  horrible  embodiment  of  brutal  lust  of  that  Point  within 
the  Circle  is  his  religion,  yea,  it  is  his  god  Lust,  damning, 
hell-born  Lust — the  worship  of  the  animal  nature. 

FREEMASONRY  IS  SUN-WORSHIP. 

The  sun  is  represented  in  astronomy  by  that  symbol.  The 
sun  is  taken  as  one  of  the  symbols  of  creative  powers.  That 
is  what  is  worshiped  in  the  East  at  the  feet  of  the  Worship  u 
Master,  and  in  the  South  and  at  the  West  as  the  sun  travels 

its  course. 

It  is  so  avowed  by  the  Masons  themselves.  Those  who  are 
honest  do  not  even  pretend  for  a  moment  that  there  is  any 

recognition  of  Christianity  in  Masonry.  ,,  , 

Mackey  says  that  the  Brahman,  the  Buddhist,  the  Moham¬ 
medan,  the  heathen,  stands  upon  an  equal  platform  with  the 
Christian  in  the  lodge,  and  that  the  religion  of  Fremasonry 
antedates  Christianity,  and  has  for  its  gospel  the  lex  nature,  the 

law  of  nature.  .  ,  u 

Is  it  not  betraying  the  Christ  with  a  kiss,  when  a  man  pub¬ 
licly  professes  Christianity,  and  then  in  the  lodge-room  passes 
from  degree  to  degree  until  he  has  gone  through  the  whole 
wearisome  thirty-three,  like  Bishop  Mallejieu,  Bishop  Fow  er, 
and  Bishop  Joyce,  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  like 

others  in  all  the  apostate  churches? 

When  a  man  has  gone  through  thirty-three  of  these  inter¬ 
nal  degrees,  each  taking  him  to  a  lower  depth  of  devilry  than 
the  one  before,  has  he  not  betrayed  his  Master? 

Audience — ^  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie— Is  he  not  selling  Him  to  His  enemies? 

Audience — “Yes.”  ,  , 

Dr.  Dowie — I  know  nothing  at  all  about  what  betrayal 

means,  or  selling  the  Master  means,  if  that  is  not  true. 

Hence  it  is  today  that  we  see  churches  which  once  were 
renowned  for  spiritual  power  become  so  void  of  that  power 
that  even  their  hypocritical  Bishops  are  compelled  to  confess 
it,  as  did  Bishop  Fowler  in  that  address,  shamefully  entitled 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  1 1 1 

“The  Seal  of  the  Covenant:  a  Call  to  Humiliation  and  Prayer,” 
which  preceded  this  Conference.  They  have  the  effrontery  to 
tell  us  that  they  are  the  champions  of  Christianity  when  they 
confess  that  they  are  retreating  in  the  face  of  Christ’s  ene¬ 
mies,  and  that  the  pathway  is  paved  with  the  dead. 

They  have  sold  Him  to  His  enemies;  they  have  betrayed 
Him  with  a  kiss.  They  have  made  a  mock  of  weeping  over 
the  results,  and  then  gone  on  with  their  devilry. 

It  will  be  a  marvel  if  any  man  becomes  a  Bishop  at  this 
General  Conference  who  is  not  a  Freemason.  I  do  not  think 
it  is  possible.  At  all  events  he  will  not  be  an  avowed  opponent 
of  Masonry. 

I  do  not  think  that  there  is  a  sensible  man  or  woman  here 
tonight  who  will  say  other  than  that  a  professed  Christian 
minister,  Bishop  or  anything  else  you  like,  who  has  taken  these 
foul  oaths,  and  put  himself  into  these  foul  hands,  has  betrayed 
his  Master  with  the  very  word  of  that  obligation,  “I  will  always 
Hail.  I  will  always  cry  Hail,  Master,  and  kiss  Him  and  hand 
Him  over  to  His  enemies.” 

It  was  a  deed  of  darkness  when  Judas  came  into  that  Geth- 
semane,  and  said  “  Hail,  Master.”  Their  secret  work  is  a  deed 
of  darkness:  for  it  is  always  in  darkness  that  they  perform  their 
ceremonies.  Even  when  it  is  daylight  they  veil  themselves 
from  the  sun.  They  darken  their  rooms,  and  they  blindfold 
their  candidate.  They  lead  him  around  in  disgraceful  attire  to 
worship  at  the  disgusting  shrine  of  Baal.  They  have  even 
added  to  it  the  shrine  of  Mohammed,  as  we  saw  in  examining 
the  Ritual  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  this  week. 

Let  us  register  our  vow  tonight,  that  we  shall  never  cease 
to  protest  against  this  foul  blot  upon  humanity,  and  this  hor¬ 
rible  betrayal  of  the  Christ,  and  this  shameful  selling  of  Him  to 
H  is  enemies. 

WHY  I  WITNESS  AGAINST  THIS  BETRAYAL  OF  CHRIST. 

“What  business  is  it  of  yours,  Dr.  Dowie?”  asks  some  one. 

What,  business  is  it  of  mine?  Am  I  not  Christ’s  minister? 
Did  He  not  send  me  as  His  Messenger,  and  am  I  here  to  see 
the  people  dragged  down  to  hell  by  this  horrible  thing,  and 
say  nothing? 

Am  I  to  stand  by  and  see  millions  of  sincere  and  earnest 
Christians  in  these  churches  who  have  sought  the  Lord  earnestly, 
betrayed  by  their  leaders,  dragged  down  and  sold  out  to  the 
World,  the  Flesh  and  the  Devil,  and  say  nothing? 

What  kind  of  a  man  would  you  think  me  to  be  if  I  saw  my 
brother’s  house  burning,  and  I  did  not  cry  Fire?  What  kind  of 
a  man  would  I  be,  if  I  did  not  leap  forward,  and  endeavor  to 
rescue  from  the  flames  those  who  would  be  burned  to  death,  when 
the  flames  reached  them? 


1 12  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

What  kind  of  a  man  would  I  be  if  I  did  not  wish  to  awaken 
the  sleepers  and  cry,  “Awake!  the  house  is  on  fire!  Quick! 
Get  out”?  It  would  be  my  duty  to  drag  them  out ,  if  necessary, 
even  if  I  tore  some  of  their  clothes  in  doing  so. 

If  I  did  not  do  it,  I  should  be  a  murderer.  If  I  had  a  voice 
to  speak,  and  a  hand  to  move,  and  I  stood  still  for  fear  that 
my  hands  might  be  burned,  I  should  be  guilty  of  murder. 

A  STORY  OF  AN  OWNER’S  APATHY  WHILE  HIS  HOUSE  BURNED. 

I  had  my  home  and  headquarters  for  three  years  at  a  certain 
village  near  this  city,  a  center  of  Methodist  hypocrisy  and 
apostasy,  and  I  never  received  the  commonest  courtesy  from  a 
single  Methodist  minister  living  there.  It  is  a  Valley  of  Dry 

Bones.  .  ,  .  , 

One  day  a  fire  took  place  within  two  doors  ot  my  house. 

There  was  a  street  between,  but  a  large  hotel  at  the  corner.  It 
was  only  a  frame-work  hotel,  and  near  that  there  was  a  house 

which  took  fire.  . 

I  saw  the  people  in  the  hotel,  in  great  alarm,  throwing  their 

things  out  of  the  window,  and  running  out  into  the  street. 

I  saw  the  smoke  and  flames  ascending.  I  thought  that  hotel 
was  on  fire.  It  was  very  cold  weather,  below  zero,  and  scarcely 
stopping  to  button  my  overcoat  I  rushed  across  the  street, 
drawing  on  my  gioves  as  I  went.  W  hen  I  got  there  I  found 
the  fire  was  in  a  house  beyond  the  hotel. 

I  found  the  people  of  the  house,  not  at  all  alarmed,  stand¬ 
ing  looking  on  with  perfect  apathy.  I  did  not  know  at  the 
time  that  they  were  people  who  owned  the  house.  Then  I  saw 
some  of  them  taking  out  a  few  pictures  and  things  of  that 
kind.  The  fire  was  making  rapid  headway. 

By  this  time  the  fire  brigade,  such  as  it  was,  came  up,  but 
there  were  only  two  or  three  of  them,  and  there  were  not 
enough  men  to  take  care  of  the  hose.  I  helped  screw  on  one 
of  the  hose,  and  to  get  it  to  work.  There  was  nobody  else  to 
take  it,  apparently.  I  ran  into  a  back-yard  and  climbed  up  on 
a  fence  and  on  to  the  top  of  an  outhouse,  and  began  to  play  on 
this  fire.  (  Laughter.) 

I  directed  streams  of  water  on  the  right  spots,  and  I  began 

to  put  out  the  fire.  . 

A  man  came  around  and  said,  “What  are  you  doing? 

“  I  am  putting  out  the  fire,”  I  said.  “What  are  you  doing?” 
I  was  told  that  this  man  was  connected  with  the  house. 

I  helped  to  put  out  the  fire,  and  made  such  a  fuss  about  it 
that  the  firemen  moved  a  little  quicker,  and  between  us  all  we 
got  the  fire  under. 

I  never  saw  such  disappointed  people  as  the  owners  of  that 
house.  (Laughter.)  I  was  astonished.  I  did  not  expect 
much  in  the  way  of  thanks.  I  did  not  do  it  for  thanks.  1  did 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  1 1 3 

it  because  it  was  neighborly  and  right,  and  I  did  not  want  all 
the  people  in  the  hotel  to  lose  all  their  things,  or  any  one  to 
be  injured  by  exposure  to  that  cruelly  cold  weather.  There 
were  many  little  children  and  some  sick  and  old  people  there. 
I  did  not  want  the  fire  to  extend  to  my  own  house. 

I  thought  I  was  doing  a  kind  act  in  helping  my  neighbor  to 
put  it  out,  but  I  was  altogether  wrong;  my  neighbor  had  appar¬ 
ently  expected  to  get  the  whole  of  the  insurance.  Now  he  was 
only  going  to  get  a  part  of  it.  (Laughter.) 

PEOPLE  DO  NOT  WANT  THE  FIRES  OF  SIN  PUT  OUT. 

There  are  a  great  many  professed  Christians  who  are  very 
angry  with  me  because  I  am  putting  the  fire  of  Baal-worship 
out.  They  do  not  want  it  put  out.  They  want  to  get  their 
insurance  from  the  Gehenna  Mutual  Masonic  Provident 
Association,  of  which  the  Honorable  Mr.  Beelzebub  is  General 
Manager. 

Or  it  may  be  that  they  are  insured  in  the  Mutual  Pro¬ 
tection  and  Benefit  Association  of  the  World,  the  Flesh  and 
the  Devil,  of  which  Bishop  Facing-both-ways  is  the  Chap¬ 
lain. 

They  do  not  want  the  fire  put  out,  and  they  are  mad  at  me. 
They  want  the  fire  to  burn  on.  The  fact  is,  they  set  the  house 
on  fire.  They  are  the  children  of  the  Devil.  They  do  not  want 
you  to  fight  the  fire,  and  they  are  not  in  earnest.  When  you  put 
out  the  flames,  when  you  destroy  evil  things,  and  fight  sin,  dis¬ 
ease,  death  and  hell,  you  get  no  help  from  these  Methodists, 
and  people  of  that  kind. 

They  say,  “What  are  you  making  such  a  fuss  about?  Why 
can  you  not  let  it  burn  out?” 

We  do  not  propose  to  let  this  fire  go  on,  do  we? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie— May  God  help  us.  We  are  going  to  do  what 
we  can  to  prevent  the  fire  spreading  further. 

I  feel  very  much  tonight  the  need  of  great  wisdom  in 
revising  the  proofs  of  last  Sunday’s  discourse.  It  has  all  to  be 
gone  over,  every  word,  every  letter,  every  comma,  every  par¬ 
agraph,  everything  put  right.  These  proofs  are  called  galley 
proofs,  and  I  sometimes  say  I  am  a  galley-slave  for  the  time 
being.  I  keep  rowing,  keep  rowing,  and  keep  rowing  all  the 
night.  When  the  morning  comes  the  galleys  are  all  transferred 
into  Leaves  of  Healing,  which  is  Zion  on  Wings. 

That  is  what  Deaconess  Marie  Brieger  sitting  there  does. 
She  gets  into  the  galleys  and  toils  over  that  German  edition. 
And  so  with  Evangelist  Pos  over  the  Holland  edition.  But 
after  our  toils,  we  have  this  satisfaction,  that  God  takes  the 
Little  White  Dove  and  uses  it  to  men  and  women  on  every 
continent,. 


1 1 4  ZION '  S  CON  FLIC  T  WITH  ME  THODIS  T  A  PO  STAS  Y. 


When  it  has  spread  its  wings  it  is  a  galleon  which  bears  to 
distant  lands  better  things  than  these  Spanish  galleons  of 
old  bore:  spices  and  pearls  and  rubies  and  gold — it  bears  the 
Everlasting  Gospel. 

I  am  so  thankful  when  I  hear  how  the  Germans  and  Dutch, 
and  people  all  over  the  earth  receive  it. 

PEOPLE  ARE  NOT  IN  EARNEST. 

The  people  whom  we  expected  to  receive  it  do  not  receive 
it.  That  is  just  it:  they  are  not  in  earnest  in  putting  out  the 
fire.  They  never  were  in  earnest,  and  we  have  to  find  that  out. 
It  is  a  sore  trial  to  find  it  out. 

Why,  they  seem  to  fear  that  if  the  fire  were  put  out  they 
would  have  nothing  else  to  do;  they  want  the  fire  to  keep 
burning. 

In  a  certain  town  they  were  talking  of  disbanding  the  fire 
brigade  because  there  was  nothing  for  them  to  do.  It  was  a 
great  loss  to  the  town  to  keep  it.  Within  the  next  week  there 
were  many  fires.  They  found,  after  wondering  where  these 
fires  came  from,  that  they  were  lit  by  the  brigade.  They  did 
not  want  to  go  out  of  business.  (Laughter.) 

It  seems  to  me  that  there  are  a  considerable  number  of 
ministers  who  do  not  want  the  fires  on  the  altar  of  Baal  to  be 
put  out. 

They  cannot  dig.  They  are  no  account  in  any  business  of 
any  kind.  So  they  just  let  the  fire  burn  to  keep  up  the  denomi¬ 
national  alliance  between  Methodism  and  Baal. 

All  who  are  determined  that  they  shall  no  longer  stand  or 
sympathize  in  any  way  with  those  who  are  betraying  their 
Master  with  a  kiss,  and  selling  Him  for  silver,  stand  and  tell 
God  that.  You  will  make  your  protest  against  this  iniquity. 
All  who  are  determined  to  renounce  the  infernal  works  of 
darkness,  and  to  reprove  them,  stand.  All  who  are  willing  to 
hold  by  the  infernal  works  of  darkness,  keep  your  seats,  and 
the  Devil  will  know  where  to  find  you,  and  he  will,  too.  (With 
a  few  exceptions  all  arose.) 

I  see!  I  see!  It  is  the  people  who  do  not  want  to  put 
out  the  fire  who  are  keeping  their  seats.  You  can  tell  they  are 
ministers  by  the  look  of  them.  They  are  glaring  at  me  as  if 
they  would  like  to  Morganise  me.  But  they  cannot  put  me  in 
fear  with  their  shameful  threats.  The  Lord  have  mercy  upon 
them. 

PRAYER  OF  CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus’  Name,  have  mercy  upon  these  wretched 
people  in  this  meeting  who  are  not  willing  to  stand  up  with  God’s  people, 
and  renounce  the  infernal  works  of  darkness.  Have  mercy  upon  those  who 
have  betrayed  their  Master  with  a  kiss,  and  sold  Him  for  silver  to  the 
heathen  gods.  Have  mercy  upon  them.  Break  down  their  Apostate 
Churches,  and  set  the  people  free,  for  Jesus’  sake.  Give  us  power  to  do 


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right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Let  us  be  brave  and  do  right.  Forgive  our 
sins.  Cleanse  us  in  spirit,  and  in  soul,  and  in  body,  in  Jesus’  Name  (All 
repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 


CLOSING  PRAYER. 

F  ather  in  heaven,  bless  this  company.  Have  mercy  upon  those  who 
have  tonight  rejected  the  opportunity  to  stand  up  and  renounce  the 
internal  works  of  darkness.  Deliver  the  people  from  their  foul  grasp.  For 
Jesus  sake  destroy  these  Apostate  Churches,  and  take  away  these  false 
shepherds.  Give  us  grace  to  Go  Forward,  that  when  these  powers  are 
destroyed,  and  these  strongholds  of  sin  and  Satan  are  pulled  down,  the  way 
may  be  made  plain  for  the  Salvation  of  multitudes  throughout  this  earth 
We  ask  it  in  Jesus’  Name. 


BENEDICTION. 

And  now,  beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the 
very  God  of  Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole 
bpint,  and  Soul,  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the 
coming  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also 

rid0  !f-  GJUce  °f  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  Love  of  God  the  Eternal 

Father  the  feUowship  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  the  Eternal  Comforter;  one  Eter¬ 
nal  God  abide  in  you,  bless  you,  keep  you  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  every¬ 
where,  forever.  Amen.  1 


seventh:  discourse. 

Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord’s  Day  Afternoon,  May  20,  1900. 

The  serv  ices  were  opened  by  singing  Hymn  Number  1951 

Our  Lord  is  now  rejected, 

And  by  the  world  disowned, 

By  the  many  still  neglected, 

And  by  the  few  enthroned ; 

But  soon  He’ll  come  in  glory, 

The  hour  is  drawing  nigh, 

For  the  crowning  day  is  coming  by  and  by. 

Chorus — Oh,  the  crowning  day  is  coming, 

Is  coming  by  and  by, 

When  our  Lord  shall  come  in  “power” 

And  “glory”  from  on  high. 

Oh,  the  glorious  sight  will  gladden 
Each  waiting,  watchful  eye, 

In  the  crowning  day  that’s  coming  by  and  by. 

SCRIPTURE  READING  AND  EXPOSITION. 

The  General  Overseer  then  read  in  the  Inspired  Word  of 
God  in  the  book  of  the  Prophet  Isaiah,  the  fifty-second  chapter, 
and  in  the  Gospel  acccording  to  St.  Luke,  the  thirteenth 

chapter.  He  commented  as  follows  upon  the  eleventh  verse 
of  Luke  thirteenth : 

And  behold,  a  woman  which  had  a  spirit  of  infirmity— 

She  had  not  merely  an  infirmity,  but  a  “spirit  of  infirmity.” 
A  demoniacal  possession  was  added  to  her  infirmity.  All 
lsease  is  diabolical,  Satanic  oppression.  It  comes  from  the 
Devil.  It  cannot  come  from  God,  for  it  is  not  in  God ;  it  could 
not  come  from  heaven,  for  there  is  no  disease  there. 

There  are  things  which  are  impossible  even  to  God. 


I  Id  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


It  is  impossible  for  God  to  lie,  and  it  is  impossible  for  God 
tc  defile  He  can  never  be  the  corrupter  of  His  own  creation. 
It  is  impossible  for  God  to  be  the  author  either  of  sin  or  disease 
The  great  truth  which  they  did  not  understand  was  taug 
that  day  by  Jesus,  that  all  disease  is  the  work  of  Satan. 

He  was  teaching  in  one  of  the  synagogues. 

Reading  on,  the  General  Overseer  commented  as  follows 

u  Don  the  thirteenth  verse:  .  , 

And  He  laid  His  hands  upon  her:  and  immediately  she  was  made 
si  ;aight,  and  glorified  God.  .  .  ,  , 

“Oh,  that  happened  nineteen  centuries  ago.  Nobody  gets 

r  ade  straight  today.” 

That  is  what  the  Methodists  say.  (Laughter.) 

Not  all;  but  most  of  them. 

Zion,  does  God  heal  today? 

Audience — “Yes.”  ,  ,  , 

Dr  Dowie — All  who  have  been  healed  through  faith  in 

jesus,  stand.  You  are  God’s  witnesses.  (More  than  2000 
arose.) 

Did  God  heal  you? 

Witnesses _ “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie— Just  take  a  look  at  them,  Methodists;  take  a 
look  at  them. 

Are  you  sure  God  healed  you? 

Witnesses— “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  I  heal  you,  or  ever  claim  to. 

Witnesses — “  No.” 


vv  i  l  ri  csscis —  w  • 

Dr.  Dowie — Did  you  have  to  pay  anything  for  your  healing? 
Witnesses — “  No.” 


And  He  laid  His  hands  upon  her:  and  immediately  she  was  made 
straight,  and  glorified  God.  And  the  ruler  of  the  synagogue,  being  moved 
with  indignation — 


WHY  SHOULD  THE  CHURCH  RULERS  BE  ANGRY  WITH  DIVINE 

HEALING. 

Why  should  they  be?  Whv  should  men  who  profess  to  be 
Christians  be  just  about  as  mad  as  a  March  hare  when  they  are 

told  that  somebody  is  healed  ? 

Do  you  want  to  make  a  Methodist  Bishop  mad?— tell  him 

that  you  have  been  healed  through  Faith  in  Jesus,  lhe  miser¬ 
able  Baptists  are  just  as  bad.  (Laughter.)  .....  •? 

Why  should  that  ruler  have  been  moved  with  indignation. 
Ought  he  not  to  have  been  grateful  to  God  that  the  poor  woman 
under  his  ministry,  who  had  been  bowed  down  like  that  tor 
eighteen  years,  had  been  healed?  Ought  he  not  to  have 

rejoiced? 

Audience — “Yes.”  _  .  .  - 

Dr.  Dowie — Do  present-day  ministers  usually  rejoice. 

Audience — “  No.” 


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ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  1 I  7 

Dr.  Dowie — No,  they  do  not.  (Laughter.)  They  make  an 
awful  fuss.  If  a  man  believes  in  Divine  Healing,  they  have 
in  some  cases  expelled  him  from  the  Conference.  If  they  do 
not  do  that,  they  send  him  to  the  backwoods,  on  a  starvation 
salary. 

—And  the  ruler  of  the  synagogue,  being  moved  with  indignation— 

Who  was  that?  The  ruler  of  the  synagogue,  the  teacher, 
the  old  Rabbi,  the  old  liar  and  hypocrite. 

And  the  ruler  of  the  synagogue,  being  moved  with  indignation  because 
Jesus  had  healed  on  the  Sabbath,  answered  and  said  to  the  multitude — 

He  was  a  Sabbatarian,  you  know.  He  believed  in  the  Sab¬ 
bath — had  an  awful  belief  in  the  Sabbath. 

I  have  found  that  the  people  who  are  so  very  troubled  about 
the  seventh  day,  or  the  first  day,  being  the  Sabbath,  are  for  the 
most  part  of  no  account. 

They  are  cruel;  they  are  hard;  they  are  unspiritual;  they 
do  not  see  the  large  view  of  the  Sabbath,  which  was  made  for 
man,  not  man  for  it. 

The  Jews  were  narrow  Sabbatarians. 

This  man — just  look  at  him! 

THE  MAN  WHO  HATES  DIVINE  HEALING  A  HYPOCRITE. 

And  the  ruler  of  the  synagogue,  being  moved  with  indignation  because 
Jesus  had  healed  on  the  Sabbath,  answered  and  said  to  the  multitude,  There 
are  six  days  in  which  men  ought  to  work:  in  them  therefore  come  and  be 
healed,  and  not  on  the  day  of  the  Sabbath.  But  the  Lord  answered  him, 
and  said,  Ye  hypocrites — 

A  branding  iron  was  put  right  between  his  eyes,  and  when 
it  was  taken  away  you  could  read  the  words  there,  “  Thou 
hypocrite!  ” 

It  is  between  the  eyes  of  every  man  who  fights  Divine  Heal¬ 
ing.  (Amen.) 

—Ye  hypocrites,  doth  not  each  one  of  you  on  the  Sabbath  loose  his  ox  or 
his  ass  from  the  Stoll,  and  lead  him  away  to  watering?  And  ought  not  this 
woman — 

“This  woman,  who  has  been  shown  today  for  the  first  time 
the  Healing  Stream,  the  Water  of  Life;  that  I  am  the  Foun¬ 
tain  opened  in  Judah  for  sin,  and  for  all  uncleanness.” 

That  was  what  Christ  meant. 

— And  ought  not  this  woman,  being  a  daughter  of  Abraham, — 

A  faithful  woman;  not  like  them — a  pack  of  hypocrites. 
He  denied  their  right  to  call  themselves  sons  of  Abraham,  just 
as  I  deny  the  right  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  General  Con¬ 
ference  now  sitting  in  this  city  to  call  themselves  the  sons  of 
John  Wesley.  You  are  mostly  the  sons  of  4he  Devil  (laughter) 
“and  the  lusts  of  your  father  it  is  your  will  to  do.  He  was 
a  murderer  from  the  beginning,  and  stood  not  in  the  truth, 
because  there  is  no  truth  in  him.  When  he  speaketh  a  lie,  he 
speaketh  of  his  own;  for  he  is  a  liar  and  the  father  thereof.” 


1 18  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

That  is  what  Christ  says.  Do  not  think  that  I  made  up 
that  speech.  That  is  Christ’s  speech.  \  ou  have  not  heard  it 
for  a  long  time,  have  you  (laughter),  some  of  you? 

— And  ought  not  this  woman,  being  a  daughter  of  Abraham,  whom  Satan 
had  bound — 

CHRIST  DECLARED  THAT  SATAN  WAS  THE  AUTHOR  OF  DISEASE. 

Now,  Mr.  Ruler  of  the  Synagogue,  do  you  see  Christ  stand¬ 
ing  there,  who  has  branded  you  as  a  hypocrite?  He  is  telling 
you  that  Satan  bound  that  woman.  Do  you  tell  me  that  was 
nineteen  centuries  ago,  and  it  is  not  Satan  who  does  it  now, 
but  it  is  God?  Then,  if  that  is  as  you  say,  God  is  doing  the 
work  the  Devil  used  to  do,  is  He  not?  Is  He? 

Audience — “No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — How  do  you  like  that,  you  Methodists? 
(Laughter.) 

A  nice  horn  of  a  dilemma  for  you. 

No;  it  is  the  same  old  Devil.  Or,  has  he  improved? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie— No;  he  has  become  a  Methodist.  (Laughter 
and  applause.) 

I  will  take  that  back.  He  became  a  Methodist  at  least 
nineteen  centuries  ago.  He  is  a  Methodist  still. 

“Well  now,  Doctor,”  you  say,  “can  you  find  that  in  the 

Bible?” 

Yes.  The  Apostle  Paul  tells  you: 

Finally,  be  strong  in  the  Lord,  and  in  the  strength  of  His  might.  Put 
on  the  whole  armor  of  God. 

And  the  whole  object  of  this  armor  of  God  is: 

That  ye  may  be  able  to  stand  against  tas  methodeias  tou  diabolou 
(t as  /xedodeLas  rov  SiafioXov) — 

The  methods  of  the  Devil.  (Laughter.)  He  is  a  Methodist 
of  a  bad  kind,  and  has  many  sons  of  that  name,  although  I 
rejoice  to  say  that  there  are  multitudes  of  Methodists  of  a 
good  kind — thousands  of  whom  have  come  into  the  fellowship 
of  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  in  Zion. 

— And  ought  not  this  woman,  being  a  daughter  of  Abraham,  whom  Satan 
had  bound,  lo,  these  eighteen  years,  to  have  been  loosed  from  this  bond  on 
the  day  of  the  Sabbath?  And  as  He  said  these  things,  all  His  adversaries 
were  put  to  shame;  and  all  the  multitude  rejoiced  for  all  the  glorious  things 
that  were  done  by  Him. 

May  God  bless  His  Word. 

Conductor  Rice  then  sang  “Thy  Word  is  Like  a  Fire,”  from 
the  oratorio  “  Elijah,”  with  clear,  resonant  voice  and  a  bril¬ 
liancy  and  ease  of  execution  which  held  the  breathless  attention 
of  the  great  audience  of  thousands.  The  accompaniment  was 
played  with  accuracy  and  sympathy  by  Miss  Leah  Sprinkel, 
Zion’s  Organist  at  Central  Zion  Tabernacle. 

The  General  Overseer  then  led  the  people  in  prayer. 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  ME TIIODIS T  APOSTA SY.  1 1 9 

The  announcements  were  then  made,  during  the  course  of 
which  the  General  Overseer  said: 

BISHOP  FOWLER  AND  THE  ASSOCIATED  PRESS. 

The  Associated  Press,  which  is  in  session  in  Chicago,  had 
very  properly  Bishop  Charles  H.  Fowler  there  last  week  at 
their  banquet,  where  they  handed  him  “the  loving  cup.” 
(Laughter.)  They  had  a  speech  from  him  in  which  he  praised 
them.  He  said,  in  effect,  that  the  Chicago  press  was  the 
sublimest  thing  in  the  way  of  newspaper  literature  in  all  the 
world.  (Laughter.)  I  wonder  how  he  looked  when  he 
said  it. 

I  should  think  that  a  flashlight  by  my  friend,  Mr.  Lawrence, 
taken  at  that  moment  would  have  revealed  all  the  editors  with 
their  tongues  in  their  cheeks.  (Laughter.) 

Oh,  the  hypocrites!  They  know  themselves  that  of  all  the 
kinds  of  liars  who  are  notorious  throughout  this  country,  the 
Chicago  press  liar  is  the  worst. 

I  begin  to  think,  though,  that  Philadelphia  is  coming  up, 
from  what  I  saw  there  the  other  day.  The  fact  is  that  the 
whole  press  of  this  country  is  just  simply  one  vast  syndicate. 
Oh,  the  amount  of  “sin”  in  that  syndicate! 

Have  you  not  noticed  the  almost  absolute  silence  of  the 
press  concerning  these  meetings?  Look  at  this  gathering 
today.  I  know  how  large  this  Tabernacle  is  and  what  it 
contains.  There  are  about  3000  persons  present  now — yet 
tomorrow  morning,  I  could  almost  bet,  if  I  were  a  bettor,  that 
you  will  not  see  a  line  in  the  press. 

Young  Lady  (seated  at  Reporters’  Table) — “  How  much  will 
you  bet?” 

Dr.  Dowie — Were  you  reporting  here  last  week?  (Ap¬ 
plause  and  laughter.) 

Young  Lady— Yes. 

Dr.  Dowie — Now,  young  lady,  just  a  moment.  Did  any  of 
your  reports  appear? 

Young  Lady— “Well,  they  couldn’t.”  (Laughter  and  ap¬ 
plause.) 

Dr.  Dowie — They  couldn’t,  the  young  lady  says.  She  looks 
a  very  amiable  young  lady,  and  she  seems  to  be  a  very  bright 
reporter.  She  has  been  reporting  me  for  about  four  or  five 
meetings,  and  there  has  not  been  a  line  in  the  papers,  not  one. 
It  is  probably  not  her  fault. 

She  wants  to  know  how  much  I  will  bet.  I  will  bet  nothing. 
Something  might  appear  tomorrow,  and  I  should  be  very  glad. 
But  I  never  bet  anything  in  my  life. 

It  would  be  quite  a  “red  letter  day”  if  a  decent  report  of 
this  meeting  appeared.  But  I  have  no  hope  of  good  treatment, 
or  even  the  commonest  honesty,  from  the  present  “generation 


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of  vipers”  who  have  taken  the  place  of  the  scribes  of  Christ  s 
day  The  Associated  Liars  of  the  Associated  Press  belong  to 
the  World,  the  Flesh  and  the  Devil.  They  do  not  belong  to 
God.  Some  of  them  are  Methodists  (laughter) ;  some  of  them 
are  Congregationalists ;  some  of  them  are  baptists,  some  o 
them  are  Episcopalians,  but  they  tell  you  themselves,  in  a 
moment  of  candor,  that  they  belong  to  the  Devil  Truth  has 
fallen  in  the  streets.  “They  justify  the.  wicked  for  a  reward, 
and  take  away  the  righteousness  of  the  righteous  from  him. 

THE  CHICAGO  PRESS  HAS  KNOWINGLY  AND  DELIBERATELY  LIED 

ABOUT  ME. 

Strangers  here  should  not  imagine  that  the  press  of  Chicago 
ever  makes  any  mistakes  about  me.  It  has  never  made  any 
mistake.  It  has  always  lied  on  purpose.  (Laughter.) 

That  is  what  the  ancient  equivalents  of  the  modern  news¬ 
papers  did  about  Jesus.  ,  ..  , 

The  newspapers  are  a  pack  of  cowards.  They  are  afraid  to 
publish  even  the  news  of  the  day.  The  biggest  congregations 
which  gather  on  any  Sabbath  in  Chicago  are  in  this  Tabernacle. 
They  know  it,  but  they  will  not  report  my  sermons  fairly,  if  at 
all.  '  I  do  not  know  that  I  am  very  anxious  about  their  report¬ 
ing  me.  I  think  that  if  the  press  should  praise  me  I  should 
turn  to  my  wife  and  to  my  brothers  around  me  and  ask  where 
had  I  fallen  or  backslidden,  that  the  newspaper  press  of  Chicago 

should  praise  me.  (Laughter.) 

I  tell  the  Associated  Press  in  all  its  power,  controlling  its 
millions,  that  their  papers  are  wilfully  dishonest  and  false  so 
far  as  concerns  Zion,  and  on  many  other  matters.  They  never 
tell  the  truth  unless  it  suits  them,  and  it  does  not  happen  to 
suit  them  just  now  to  tell  the  truth  about  Zion.  .  God  will 
smash  them  and  sweep  them  out,  as  He  will  every  iniquity  in 

this  world.  .  .  .  .  ,  . 

He  will  capture  all  the  printing  presses  of  the  world  yet, 

as  He  will  all  the  other  good  things  which  the  Devil  has,  for  a 
time,  stolen  and  used  for  bad  purposes. 


THE  RISE,  PROGRESS  AND  FALL  OF  METHODISM 

IN  AMERICA. 


INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept¬ 
able  in  Thy  sight,  be  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom  these 
words  shall  come,  in  this  and  every  land,  in  this  and  all  the  coming  time, 
till  Jesus  come,  for  His  sake.  Amen. 

In  the  front  of  all  I  have  to  say  today,  I  desire  to  put  three 
passages  of  Scripture.  • 


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ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

First,  in  the  fifty-first  chapter  of  Isaiah,  the  first  verse: 

TEXT. 

Hearken  to  Me,  ye  that  follow  after  righteousness,  ye  that  seek  the 
Lord:  look  unto  the  rock  whence  ye  are  hewn,  and  to  the  hole  of  the  pit 
whence  ye  were  digged.  1 

In  the  twenty-fourth  chapter  of  Isaiah  and  the  fifth  verse: 

The  earth  also  is  polluted  under  the  inhabitants  thereof;  because  they 
have  transgressed  the  Laws,  changed  the  Ordinance,  broken  the  Ever¬ 
lasting  Covenant. 

Then  I  will  ask  you  to  look  at  the  words  of  Jesus  in  the 
twenty-third  chapter  of  Matthew  at  the  thirty-eighth  verse; 
but  I  will  read  the  connection: 

Therefore,  behold,  I  send  unto  you  prophets,  and  wise  men,  and  scribes: 
some  of  them  shall  ye  kill  and  crucify;  and  some  of  them  shall  ye  scourge 
in  your  synagogues,  and  persecute  from  city  to  city:  that  upon  you  may 
come  all  the  righteous  blood  shed  on  the  earth,  from  the  blood  of  Abel  the 
righteous  unto  the  blood  of  Zachariah  son  of  Barachiah,  whom  ye  slew 
between  the  sanctuary  and  the  altar.  Verily  I  say  unto  you,  All  these 
things  shall  come  upon  this  generation. 

O  Jerusalem,  Jerusalem,  which  killeth  the  prophets,  and  stoneth  them 
that  are  sent  unto  her!  how  often  would  I  have  gathered  thy  children 
together,  even  as  a  hen  gathereth  her  chickens  under  her  wings,  and  ye 
would  not!  Behold,  your  house  is  left  unto  you  desolate.  For  I  say  unto 
you,  Ye  shall  not  see  Me  henceforth,  till  ye  shall  say,  Blessed  is  He  that 
cometh  in  the  Name  of  the  Lord. 

I  call  your  attention  specially  to  these  words: 

Behold,  your  house  is  left  unto  you  desolate. 

When  Jesus  Christ,  the  Son  of  God,  said  these  words,  He 
spoke  them  upon  the  Mount  of  Olives,  beholding  the  city  in 
all  its  fair  beauty  stretched  from  Mount  Zion  to  Mount  Moriah, 
and  all  these  beautiful  hills  and  terraces  on  which  the  Holy 
City  was  built  on  the  other  side  of  the  Valley  of  Jehoshaphat. 

Sitting  on  the  Mount  of  Olives,  He  there  saw  the  splendid 
City;  its  walls;  its  numerous  fortifications;  its  beautiful  pal¬ 
aces;  its  stately  towers,  and  above  all  the  magnificent  Temple 
of  Herod,  rivaling  in  its  magnificence  that  of  Solomon. 

He  looked  at  this  City  where  the  people  were  gathered  in 
vast  multitudes  to  witness  at  the  Feast  of  the  Passover,  the 
wondrous  scene  of  the  Sacrifice  of  that  Passover  Lamb. 

He  had  attended  with  them  the  Feast  of  the  Tabernacles. 
As  the  High  Priest  poured  out  upon  the  Altar  the  libation  of 
the  water  that  He  had  taken  from  the  sacred  stream  of  Siloam, 
He  had  proclaimed  Himself  to  be  the  Fountain  of  Life.  He 
had  cried:  “If  any  man  thirst,  let  him  come  unto  Me  and 
drink.” 

THE  MIGHTY  WORK  OF  THE  GALILEEAN  “PEASANT.” 

The  scoff  and  the  scorn  of  the  Pharisee  at  the  rude  Galileean 
Peasant  had  begun  to  change.  Only  three  brief  years  of  min¬ 
istry  and  the  Galileean  Peasant,  the  reputed  son  of  a  village 
carpenter,  had  shaken  not  only  Palestine,  but  the  world. 


122  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


Greek  Pilgrims  had  come  from  afar  and  gone  to  Philip  and 
said,  “We  want  to  see  Jesus.” 

All  the  earth  had  felt  the  influence  of  the  words  ot  Christ, 
and  the  multitudes  that  thronged  at  that  time  into  Jerusalem 
to  the  Feast  of  the  Passover,  had  also  come  to  see  Jesus.  He 
had  been  working  in  the  Temple.  .  He  had  been  delixering 

terrific  discourses.  . 

He  had  been  telling  them  those  awful  parables  in  which  He 

had  charged  upon  them  their  guilt;  told  them  to  fill  up  the 
measure  of  their  iniquities;  that  they  had  slain  all  the  prophets, 

and  now  they  would  slay  the  Son  of  God. 

He  had  made  them  to  feel,  as  they  never  had  felt 
before,  their  miserable  emptiness,  blindness,  nakedness,  and 

hypocrisy. 

He  had  smitten  Herod  on  the  throne.  He  had  smitten  the 
whited  sepulchre  who  was  high  priest  with  a  stronger  than 
mailed  hand.  The  scribes,  the  editors  of  that  day,  were  told 
that  they  were  a  generation  of  vipers,  and  their  renowned 
teachers  were  told  by  Him  that  they  were  blind  leaders  of  the 

blind. 

Eut  when  the  eventide  came,  it  was  His  custom  to  leave  the 
City  and  Temple,  pass  down  into  the  valley,  climb  the  hill  of 
Olivet,  and  then  descend  to  Bethany  and  rest  in  the  quiet  home 

of  Martha  and  Mary.  , 

On  that  night,  near  to  the  time  when  He  was  to  be  crucified, 

He  sat  on  Olivet,  looked  at  the  great  City,  and  wept: 


Oh  Jerusalem!  Jerusalem!  .  .  .  How  often  I  would  have  gathered 

thy  children  together,  even  as  a  hen  gathereth  her  chickens  under  her 
wings,  and  ye  would  not. 


Then  as  He  wept,  He  saw  the  scenes  when  the  Roman  army 
of  Vespasian,  under  Titus,  his  son,  would  sweep  down  upon  that 
City,  and  would  draw  the  cordon  of  an  awful  siege  around  the 
doomed  place.  He  seemed  to  see  them  plant  the  Roman 
eagles,  and  to  hear  the  battering  rams  crashing  against  the  walls 
of  the  City,  when  the  people  should  perish  in  their  doom.  He 
knew  that  they  would  die  after  long,  bitter  strife,  of  famine, 
pestilence  and  war;  and  that  not  one  stone  should  be  left  upon 
another  of  all  their  beautiful  buildings. 

He  said:  “Your  house  is  left  unto  you  desolate.” 

I  dare  say  there  were  some,  if  they  had  published  papers, 
who  would  have  said,  editorially,  the  next  morning,  “What 
impudence.  This  obscure  and  audacious  young  Galileean  Peas¬ 
ant  from  the  petty  village  of  Nazareth  has  foretold  the 
destruction  of  this  vast  and  mighty  City  and  this  splendid 
Temple.” 

But  it  all  came  to  pass.  In  thirty-seven  years  that  city  was 
desolate.  The  whole  nation  was  either  destroyed  or  carried 
into  captivity. 


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Josephus,  the  Jewish  historian,  tells  of  one  who  stood  upon 
the  ramparts  of  Jerusalem  and  cried,  “A  voice  from  the  East;  a 
voice  from  the  West;  a  voice  from  the  Four  Winds ;  a  voice 
against  Jerusalem  and  the  Holy  House;  a  voice  against  the 
bridegrooms  and  the  brides  ;  a  voice  against  this  whole  people.” 
This  man  cried  these  words  for  more  than  seven  years,  and  no 
cruel  punishments  could  silence  him.  The  terrible  story  of  the 
Destruction  of  Jerusalem  is  an  awful  fulfilment  of  the  words, 
“Behold,  your  house  is  left  unto  you  desolate.” 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  today  boasts  that  it  is  the 
strongest  organization,  ecclesiastically,  upon  the  soil  of  the 
United  States. 

It  holds,  while  the  Roman  Catholics  may  number  more, 
that  by  reason  of  its  affiliation  with  Masonry,  the  Methodist 
Church  can  control  the  nomination  of  politicians;  that  they 
can  secure  the  nomination  of  one  of  their  number,  a  Yates ;  that 
they  can  put  upon  the  Presidential  seat  a  McKinley.  In  fact, 
this v  arrogant  body  says,  “We  are  the  people,  and  we  are  in 
the  advance  of  the  Christianity  of  our  time.  We  rule 
America.” 

“your  house  is  left  unto  you  desolate.” 

You  have  transgressed  the  Laws.  You  have  changed  the 
Ordinance.  You  have  broken  the  Everlasting  Covenant  which 
God  made  with  your  fathers  when  He  founded  the  Methodist 
Church. 

Look  unto  the  rock  when  ye  are  hewn,  and  to  the  hole  of  the  pit  whence 
ye  are  digged. 

Compare  yourselves  with  those  who  begot  you,  and  then 
see  whether  you  are  any  better  than  the  Pharisees  of  Christ’s 
time. 

I  desire  to  speak  first  concerning  the  rise  of  Methodism. 

Amongst  the  names  of  those  who  lived,  who  loved  and 
toiled  for  God  and  for  humanity,  which  are  enshrined  within 
my  heart,  there  are  no  names  greater  than  those  of  two  young 
men  who  in  1729,  in  old  England,  bowed  before  God  and  wept 
and  sought  for  a  Holy  Life. 

One  of  these  was  a  fellow  of  Lincoln  College,  Oxford.  The 
other,  his  brother,  was  also  a  man  of  scholastic  attainments 
and  of  great  spiritual  power  and  of  poetic  genius. 

John  and  Charles  Wesley,  in  1729,  sought  earnestly  to  know 
God’s  will.  After  reading  God’s  Word  and  weeping  over  their 
own  condition  and  searching  through  the  Word  with  prayer  for 
light,  they  saw  that  they  could  not  be  saved  to  the  uttermost 
without  a  Holy  Life. 

They  saw  that  they  must  follow  after  it,  if  they  were  to 
please  God.  They  saw  that  they  must  incite  others  to  do  this. 
Hence  in  1737,  eight  years  afterwards,  seeing  still  more  closely 


124  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

that  men  must  be  justified  before  they  could  be  sanctified,  they 
formed  the  Methodist  Society.  They  never  formed  a  Church. 

They  still  declared  that  holiness  was  their  object,  and  that 
God  had  thrust  them  out  to  raise  a  holy  people. 

Oh,  how  dark  England  was,  in  I737>  under  the  cruel  domin¬ 
ion  of  the  classes!  The  masses  of  the  people,  sunk  in  sensu- 
ality,  in  intemperance  and  infidelity,  were  almost  heathen.  1  he 
better  classes,  even  the  clergy  of  the  Church  of  England,  were 
living  shameful  lives  of  self-indulgence. 

THE  WONDERFUL  WORK  FOR  GOD  OF  JOHN  AND  CHARLES  WESLEY. 

Bishoprics  and  livings  were  sold  in  the  open  market  to  the 
highest  bidder.  Of  earnest  and  consecrated  preaching  there 
was  almost  none.  Here  and  there  a  bright  light  shone  in  even 

the  Church  of  England.  ,  _x. 

There  were  rectories  like  that  at  Epworth,  where  John  Wes¬ 
ley’s  father  and  that  sainted  mother  of  nineteen  children, 
Susannah  Wesley,  taught  their  children  as  best  they  knew 

God’s  Holy  Way.  . 

God  has  never  left  Himself  without  a  Witness,  but  the  deg¬ 
radation,  the  intemperance,  the  infidelity  and  impurity  of  the 
classes,  and  the  utter  want  of  fidelity  in  the  Church,  cannot  be 
exaggerated  as  an  historic  fact.  These  young  men  said  that 
they  believed  that  God  had  sent  them  out  to  awaken  the 

Church  and  raise  a  holy  people. 

They  were  laughed  at.  They  were  laughed  at  very  much 
as  1  was  laughed  at  in  1893,  when  I  built  my  first  Zion  Taber¬ 
nacle  in  this  city. 

They  were  laughed  at  very  much  as  I  was  in  1894,  when  a 
distinguished  Presiding  Elder— -perhaps  he  is  in  this  jiouse 
today — spoke  with  contempt  of  Zion  Tabernacle  as  a  httle 
wooden  hut.”  Another,  a  professor,  said  it  was  only  “a  bit  of 

kindling  wood.”  , 

But  I  said  that  the  time  had  come  to  raise  up  a  Standard 
for  God  in  Chicago,  and  that  the  result  of  it  would  be,  when 
the  time  came,  the  formation  of  a  Church. 

How  they  laughed,  when  they  heard,  on  the  22d  of  Febru¬ 
ary,  1896,  that  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  in  Zion  had  been 
formed  with  450  members! 

They  do  not  laugh  quite  as  much  today;  for  many  members 
of  the  General  Conference  are  here  to  listen  to  what  I  say,  and 
they  know  that  their  churches  are  cracked  and  broken  from 
the  Golden  Gate  at  San  Francisco  to  Hell  Gate,  New  York, 
by  blows  given  from  Zion  against  their  apostasies. 

They  know  that  thousands  and  tens  of  thousands  have 
flocked  out  of  the  Methodist  Church  into  Zion.  And  still  they 
come.  (Amen.) 

“Oh,  what  are  you  talking  about?”  asks  some  Methodist. 


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Last  Tuesday  evening,  just  by  the  way,  two  Methodist 
friends  entered  this  Tabernacle  for  the  first  time. 

They  came  from  Grand  Island,  Nebraska.  Their  pastor  was 
attending  the  Conference.  They  sat  and  listened  to  the  Word 
of  God.  The  husband  was  sixty-one  years  of  age  and  the  wife 
fifty-seven.  They  had  been  Methodists  for  many  years.  After 
the  service  they  said  to  each  other,  “We  cannot  remain  in  that 
Apostate  Methodist  Church.  We  must  obey  God  and  be 
baptized.” 

On  Wednesday  night  they  were  baptized.  On  Thursday 
they  sought  an  interview  with  an  Elder,  and  that  day  or  the 
next  they  were  down  at  the  Auditorium,  where  they  demanded 
and  received  from  their  pastor  this  letter,  dated  Grand  Island, 
Nebraska,  but  written  in  this  city,  May  19th. 

METHODISTS  FOR  MANY  YEARS  LEAVE  THAT  CHURCH  AND  COME 

INTO  ZION. 

Grand  Island,  Nebraska,  May  19,  1900. 

This  certifies  that  C.  D.  Irvine  and  wife  have  been  acceptable  members 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  this  place,  and  are  cordially  com¬ 
mended  to  the  people  of  God  wherever  they  may  go. 

A.  Hodgett,  Pastor. 

Dear  Doctor: — This  letter  was  secured  from  a  Masonic  M.  E. 
minister  today  at  the  Conference.  He  gave  it  very  reluctantly. 

Yours  respectfully,  C.  A.  Hoy. 

With  this  they  sent  me  their  applications  for  fellowship. 

The  wife  has  been  converted  forty-two  years,  and  the  hus¬ 
band  has  been  converted  perhaps  fifty  years.  One  word  here 
last  Tuesday  night,  in  addition  to  their  previous  reading  of 
Leaves  of  Healing,  brought  them  into  Zion.  They  are  here 
today.  (Applause).  Such  cases  are  multiplied  many,  many 
times. 

Are  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Irvine  here  today?  (The  persons  referred 
to  arose). 

Are  you  the  writers  of  these  applications? 

Mr.  Irvine — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Have  I  told  the  truth?  I  have  stated  the  facts 
as  far  as  I  have  them. 

Mr.  Irvine— “They  are  correct  as  I  heard  them.” 

Dr.  Dowie — You  are  in  Zion  now?  , 

Mr.  Irvine — “Yes.”  ' 

Dr.  Dowie — You  have  come  out  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church? 

Mr.  Irvine — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Why  have  you  come  out? 

Mr.  Irvine— “  It  is  because  I  could  not  feel  justified  that  the 
Lord  wanted  me  there  any  longer;  for  they  did  not  have  any 
room  for  Salvation,  Healing  and  Holy  Living.  I  had  been 
reading  Leaves  of  Healing  for  some  time  before  I  came 
here.” 


126  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

Dr  Dowie — The  brother  wishes  to  say  that  it  was  not 
merely  the  word  on  Tuesday  night,  but  he  had  been  a  reader 
of  Leaves  of  Healing,  and  when  he  came  and  heard  my 
discourse  on  Tuesday  night,  it  settled,  him. 

This  coming  out  of  Methodism  into  Zion  is  continuous. 
Not  a  week  passes  without  many  applications  from  ex-Metho¬ 
dists.  _r  11* 

The  day  for  contempt  has  gone.  You  are  looking  very 

serious  about  it  now.  You  are  beginning  to  see  that  there  is 
something  in  it,  and  unable  and  unwilling,  because  dishonest, 
you  are  not  ready  to  admit  that  God  is  in  it.  Therefore  you 
must  perish  as  an  ecclesiastical  organization  which  God  can 
use:  for  you  “fight  against  God.” 

THE  RISE  OF  THE  METHODIST  CHURCH  IN  AMERICA. 

Let  me  tell  you  a  few  things  about  the  rise  of  this  Church, 
comparing  it  for  a  moment  with  the  rise  of  the  Jewish  Church. 
There  are  many  persons  who  imagine  that  because  God  was  the 
Originator  of  a  thing,  therefore  that  thing  will  stand. 

God  was  the  Originator  of  the  Jewish  Church.  For  1500 
years  He  bore  with  it.  Methodism  is  not  200  years  old. 

God  destroyed  the  Jewish  Church  because  it  had  trans¬ 
gressed  the  Law,  changed  the  Ordinance  and  broken  the  Ever¬ 
lasting  Covenant.  He  had  to  destroy  it  utterly,  and  substitute 

for  it  a  totally  different  organization. 

I  wish  to  point  out  the  historic  fact  that  a  thing  may  be  of 
Divine  Origination,  and  yet  go  to  the  Devil.  Then  uod  has  to 
destroy  it  Himself  in  order  to  save  His  people,  lhat  is  the 

condition  of  the  Methodist  Church  today.  . 

This  Methodist  Church  was  a  plant  of  grace,  which  came 

from  the  grand  old  British  land. 

It  was  in  1766  that  a  local  preacher  named  Embury,  an 

Irishman,  began  to  preach  in  New  \ork.  ...  cc  '  \ 

These  facts  are  official,  for  they  are  contained  in  an  official 

publication  which  I  hold  in  my  hand.  .  ,  c.  . 

He  was  the  first  Methodist  preacher  in  the  United  States. 
He  formed  a  Society  in  a  church  building  which  is  now  in 
existence;  at  least  I  was  in  it  some  years  ago,  in  John  Street, 

New  York,  away  down  in  the  Bowery. 

Another  local  preacher  named  Thomas  W  ebb,  who  was  a 
Captain  in  the  British  Army,  and  another,  an  Irishman  named 
Strawbridge,  also,  I  think,  a  local  preacher  helped  Embury. 
They  began  to  preach  in  an  humble  way  in  New  York.  I  hen 
they  extended  the  preaching  and  formed  societies  in  Mary- 

land.  .  .  ,  . 

In  1769  John  Wesley  sent  out  two  itinerant  preachers. 

Boardman  and  Pilmoor,  and  in  1771  two  others:  Francis 
Asbury  and  Richard  Wright.  Then  the  work  began  to  spread,  so 


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ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  12; 

that  at  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  in  1784,  which  was 
eighteen  years  from  the  time  that  the  Methodists  began 
preaching,  the  number  of  preachers  in  America  was  eighty,  and 
the  number  of  members  was  about  15,000. 

Just  a  word  here.  You  have  spoken  with  contempt,  some 
of  you,  concerning  the  growth  of  Zion.  We  formed  this 
Church,  as  an  organization,  only  four  years  ago  last  February. 
We  have  one  hundred  and  forty-three  ordained  officers,  and  if 
we  could  have  a  perfect  enrollment,  we  would  have  very 
much  more  than  50,000  adult  members.  There  is  no  Sabbath 
when  we  meet  here  that  we  do  not  meet  with  thousands  of 
members  of  this  Church.  There  is  no  continent  where  the  flag 
of  Zion  is  not  planted.  In  this  city  alone  we  have  between 
thirty  and  forty  nationalities  in  our  fellowship.  We  publish 
Leaves  of  Healing  weekly  and  monthly  in  three  languages, 
and  many  tracts  in  many  languages.  Conversions  and  healings 
and  consecrations  of  life  to  God  are  daily,  yea  hourly,  taking 
place  in  all  parts  of  the  world. 

We  have  more  than  a  thousand  members  of  this  Church 
who  are  working  from  week  to  week  as  Messengers  of  Zion  in 
.  the  form  of  Seventies  who  are  witnessing  for  Christ,  and  win¬ 
ning  many  to  Christ,  from  house  to  house,  not  only  in  Chicago, 
but  in  scores  of  other  centers  of  population  in  America  and 
Europe.  They  proclaim  Christ  and  reach  sometimes  nearly 
half  a  million  people  in  a  week  in  visitation  from  house  to 
house,  and  they  speak  for  Christ  with  the  people  face  to 
face. 

Our  Zion  Literature  Free  Distribution  Fund  has  sent  forth 
nearly  three-quarters  of  a  million  of  Rolls  of  Zion  Literature 
to  every  continent,  to  hotels,  and  to  steamships  sailing  on  every 
Ocean.  Fifteen  to  twenty  millions  have  been  more  or  less 
directly  reached  by  the  Message  from  Zion  through  that 
Fund. 

Our  Rescue  Work  is  growing  quite  large,  and  our  Preven¬ 
tive  Work  for  Homeless  Girls  and  Women  has  been  well 
begun. 

Zion  Printing  Works  and  Zion  Publishing  House  send  forth 
Zion  Literature  in  tons  weight  every  week,  from  our  own  well- 
equipped  composing  rooms  and  printing  presses. 

The  growth  of  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  in  Zion  is 
larger  by  four  times,  in  four  years,  than  was  American  Metho¬ 
dism  in  its  first  eighteen  years. 

Remember  that,  when  next  you  talk  about  the  growth  of 
Zion. 

I  thank  God,  though,  for  the  glorious  Rise  of  Methodism. 

I  am  a  Scotchman  by  birth,  and  an  Independent  by  ecclesi¬ 
astical  birth.  I  belonged  to  Cromwell’s  Ironsides  ecclesias¬ 
tically.  I  was  born  in  the  Congregational  Church  into  the 


128  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

Kingdom  of  God.  It  is  called  the  Independent  Church  in 
Scotland. 

I  NEVER  KNEW  THE  TIME  WHEN  I  DID  NOT  LOVE  THE  NAME  OF 

WESLEY. 

I  thank  God  today  with  all  my  heart  for  the  splendid  men 
whom  God  has  given  to  the  world,  in  Great  Britain  and  in 
Australia  and  in  America,  and  in  all  parts  of  the  world,  in  the 
Methodist  Society.  I  thank  God  for  John  Wesley’s  “  J ournal, 

and  John  Wesley’s  “Notes  on  the  New  Testament,  and  Jo  n 

Wesley’s  “  Letters,”  and  John  Wesley  s  Sermons. 

r  read  something  of  John  Wesley’s  every  week,  and  some¬ 
times  every  day.  I  thank  God  for  Charles  Wesley’s  hymns; 
for  the  inspiration  of: 

0  for  a  thousand  tongues  to  sing 
My  great  Redeemer’s  praise; 

The  glories  of  my  God  and  King, 

The  triumphs  of  His  grace. 

I  want  to  thank  God  for  the  last  verse,  which  the  Methodists 

do  not  so  often  sing  now: 

Hear  Him,  ye  deaf,  His  praise,  ye  dumb, 

Your  loosened  tongues  employ; 

Ye  blind,  behold  your  Saviour  come, 

And  leap,  ye  lame,  for  joy. 

Charles  Wesley  believed  in  Divine  Healing.  (Amen.) 

I  thank  God  for  “Jesus,  Lover  of  My  Soul.”  .  I  want  to  get 
the  Methodists  out  of  this  Methodism  which  is  Masonic  to 

sing  once  more  the  old  song: 

Thou,  O  Christ,  art  all  I  want; 

More  than  all  in  Thee  I  find: 

Raise  the  fallen,  cheer  the  faint. 

Heal  the  sick,  and  lead  the  blind. 

That  is  Divine  Healing,  and  it  is  glorious  old  Methodism. 

(Applause.)  But  it  is  not  the  Methodism  of  today. 

Oh  how  I  grieve  when  I  hear  the  Methodists  sing  1  . 

“Thou,  O  Christ,  art  all  I  want”— Peggy,  run  for  the  doctor. 

(La“  More 'than  all  in  Thee  I  find»-Where  is  that  medicine? 
“Raise  the  fallen,  cheer  the  faint”— Have  you  no  salts  that 

T  can  smell  to  keep  me  from  fainting?  .  . 

“Heal  the  sick,  and  lead  the  blind”-Oh  Peggy,  where  is 
the  doctor?  Will  the  doctor  never  come?  (Laughter.) 

The  Lord  have  mercy  upon  you. 

I  THANK  GOD  FOR  THE  METHODISM  OF  THE  FIRST  FATHERS  IN 

METHODISM. 

I  believe  if  John  Wesley  were  alive  today,  he  would  have 
been  the  leader  in  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  in  Zion 
(Applause.)  I  believe  if  I  had  been,  born  in  his  time,  I  would 


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have  been  a  Methodist.  I  can  shout  as  loud  as  one  now. 
(Applause.) 

I  thank  God  for  John  Wesley.  I  thank  God  for  Charles 
Wesley.  I  thank  God  for  Asbury,  and  Embury,  and  for  Dr. 
Coke.  I  thank  God  for  them:  great  men,  heroic  spirits.  I 
believe  that  today  John  Wesley  is  standing  by  me  in  spirit  and 
saying,  “More  power  to  you.  Smash  up  that  Church.  It  does 
not  belong  to  me.”  (Applause  and  laughter.) 

I  believe  that  today  I  should  have,  if  they  were  in  the  flesh, 
these  great  and  good  men  with  me  in  my  attack  upon  Masonry, 
and  its  filthy  and  heathen  teachings  and  practices. 

No  one  can  ever  say,  who  speaks  truly,  that  I  do  not  love, 
and  that  I  am  not  willing  to  give  my  pieed  of  humble  praise  to 
all  the  men  of  all  churches  who  have  helped  me,  by  the  inspira¬ 
tion  of  their  holy  zeal  and  holy  living. 

I  shall  deny  to  no  man  the  praise  belonging  to  him. 

Frederick  W.  Faber  died  twenty-seven  years  ago  in  the 
oratory  of  St.  Philip  DeNeri  in  London,  a  Roman  Catholic; 
but  who  shall  dare  to  say  he  is  not  with  his  Lord  in  heaven? 
I  love  that  good  man  who  wrote: 

Was  there  ever  kinder  shepherd, 

Half  so  tender,  half  so  sweet 

As  the  Saviour  who  would  have  us 
Come  and  gather  at  His  feet? 

It  is  God;  His  love  looks  mighty, 

*  But  is  mightier  than  it  seems. 

’Tis  our  Father,  and  His  fondness 
Goes  far  out  beyond  our  dreams. 

•  ••••« 

But  we  make  His  love  too  narrow 
By  false  limits  of  our  own, 

And  we  magnify  His  strictness 
With  a  zeal  He  will  not  own. 

For  the  love  of  God  is  broader 
Than  the  measures  of  man’s  mind, 

And  the  heart  of  the  Eternal 
Is  most  wonderfully  kind. 

There  is  no  place  where  earth’s  sorrows 
Are  more  felt  than  up  in  heaven ; 

There  is  no  place  where  earth’s  failings 
Have  such  kindly  judgment  given. 

There  is  welcome  for  the  sinner, 

And  more  graces  for  the  good; 

There  is  mercy  with  the  Saviour, 

There  is  Healing  in  His  blood. 

If  our  love  were  but  more  simple, 

We  should  take  Him  at  His  word, 

And  our  lives  would  all  be  sunshine 
In  the  sweetness  of  our  Lord. 

I  thank  Frederick  Faber;  and  when  I  reach 
some  time,  I  will  say,  “I  bless  you,  Frederick 
hymn  which  has  so  often  comforted  my  heart.” 


him  in  heaven, 
Faber,  for  the 


130  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


I  will  not  deny  the  Christianity  of  John  Henry  Newman, 
who  died  a  Cardinal  in  the  apostate  Church  of  Rome,  whose 
deeply  spiritual  words  I  sing*. 

Lead,  kindly  Light,  amid  th’  encircling  gloom, 

Lead  Thou  me  on; 

The  night  is  dark,  and  I  am  far  from  home; 

Lead  Thou  me  on. 

Keep  Thou  my  feet;  I  do  not  ask  to  see 
The  distant  scene;  one  step’s  enough  for  me. 


I  was  not  ever  thus,  nor  prayed  that  Thou 
Shouldst  lead  me  on; 

I  loved  to  choose  and  see  my  path ;  but  now 
Lead  Thou  me  on. 

I  loved  the  garish  day;  and,  spite  of  fears, 

Pride  ruled  my  will:  remember  not  past  years. 

So  long  Thy  power  hath  blest  me,  sure  it  still 
Will  lead  me  on 

O’er  moor  and  fen,  o’er  crag  and  torrent,  till 
The  night  is  gone, 

And  with  the  morn  those  angel  faces  smile, 

Which  I  have  loved  long  since,  and  lost  awhile. 

Oh  I  will  not  forget  that  he  sang  the  song  which  has  so 
often  brought  tears  to  my  eyes,  and  melted  my  heart,  as  I 
thought  of  those 

Whom  I  have  loved  long  since,  and  lost  awhile. 

Who  can  doubt  that  in  all  the  churches  great  and  good  men 
have  lived  and  do  live?  My  fight  is  not  against  the  good  in 
Methodism,  past  or  present,  but  my  fight  is  against  an  organ¬ 
ization  which  has  been  sold  out  by  its  leaders  until  it  has  become 
the  most  contemptible,  paltry,  political  tool  in  America. 

(Applause.) 

SHAMEFUL  POLITICAL  PRACTICES  OF  THE  METHODIST  GENERAL 

CONFERENCE. 


Look  at  it  in  its  own  politics.  Look  at  Judge  Horton  having 
to  stand  up  there  last  week  and  rebuke  the  whole  assembly  for 
disorderly  conduct  which  would  have  disgraced  a  Democratic 
convention,  (Laughter.)  He  had  to  tell  them  that  they  were 
cheats;  that  some  of  them  came  up,  passed  their  tickets  to 
persons  who  had  no  right  on  the  floor,  and  then  wanted  to 
bully  the  policemen.  He  had  to  tell  them  that  their  conduct 
was  disgraceful,  and  that  their  wire-pulling  politics  were  dis¬ 


graceful.  . 

They  have  been  balloting  a  week  for  a  Bishop,  and  have  not 

been  able  to  make  a  satisfactory  deal  with  the  Methodist  and 
Masonic  bosses  as  to  who  shall  be  Bishop.  They  have  not 
been  able  to  decide  whether  it  shall  be  cran-“  berry”  or 
another  kind  of  a  “berry.”  (Laughter.) 

They  are  in  great  trouble.  They  are  not  worrying  about 
prayer,  for  the  other  morning  when  they  were  called  to  prayer, 


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their  own  papers  tell  us  that  the  members  were  in  the  lobbies, 
discussing  and  lobbying.  There  were  only  a  few  at  prayers, 
but  when  it  was  known  that  the  next  ballot  was  coming,  every 
member  immediately  rushed  in  to  take  his  seat.  Is  that  the 
way  to  select  a  Bishop  in  the  Church  of  theLiving  God? 

Voices — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — It  would  disgrace  a  Republican  convention. 
(Laughter.) 

There  is  nothing  in  common  between  the  Methodist  Episco¬ 
pal  Church,  whose  Conference  meets  in  our  city,  and  the 
Methodism  of  1784,  when  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  was 
formally  organized  at  the  “Christmas  Conference  ”  in  Balti¬ 
more,  Maryland. 

One  hundred  and  sixteen  years  have  passed  away  since 
then,  and  beyond  the  fact  that  the  same  Bible  and  the  same 
nominal  discipline,  in  part,  is  in  their  hands,  so  that  they  have 
fundamentally  the  same  outward  laws,  they  are  not  spiritually 
the  same  people. 

METHODISTS  OF  JOHN  WESLEY’S  TIME  WOULD  HAVE  HAD  A 

REVIVAL  AT  THIS  CONFERENCE. 

They  remind  me  of  the  Pharisees  and  scribes  of  whom  Jesus 
said : 

The  scribes  and  the  Pharisees  sit  on  Moses’  seat:  all  things  therefore 
whatsoever  they  bid  you,  these  things  do  and  observe:  but  do  not  ye  after 
their  works ;  for  they  say,  and  do  not. 

The  Methodist  Church  today  has  a  great  many  things  in 
doctrine  which  are  right,  though  I  will  point  out  some  failures 
presently;  but,  if  they  had  the  same  spirit  the  primitive  Meth¬ 
odists  had  in  Wesley’s  day,  they  would  have  had  a  great  revival 
in  this  city  during  the  last  three  weeks,  instead  of  banquetings 
with  the  Associated  Liars  and  with  the  godless  alumni  of  their 
old  colleges.  (Applause.) 

I  have  not  heard  of  anybody  being  saved,  have  you? 

Voices — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — I  have  not  heard  of  anybody  being  healed, 
have  you? 

Voices — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — I  have  not  heard  of  anybody  leading  a  holier 
and  better  life  because  of  this  great  Conference.  The  last  thing 
that  they  have  thought  about,  so  far  as  I  can  see,  has  been 
personal  Salvation,  personal  Healing,  personal  Holiness. 

They  came  for  Church  politics,  and  they  are  at  it  day  and 
night  with  all  their  might,  to  their  eternal  disgrace. 

THE  DEGRADATION  OF  THE  BISHOPRIC. 

I  will  not  detail  the  history  of  this  organization,  but  I  will 
make  this  criticism,  that  very  soon  after  the  formation  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  they  determined  upon  a  course 


132  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

which,  if  it  were  to  take  place  in  Zion,  would  destroy  Zion. 
They  determined  upon  the  course  of  making  the  Quadrennial 
General  Conference  the  ruling  power  in  Methodism.  They 
degraded  the  Bishopric,  and  made  it  the  tool  of  the  Methodist 
politician.  The  Bishops  must  keep  silent  in  all  the  debates  of 
the  General  Conference,  except  when  they  are  expressly  per¬ 
mitted  to  speak.  What  is  this  Quadrennial  Conference?  A 
Conference  of  men,  of  whom  one  of  their  number  said  the 
other  day  that  their  tactics  and  modes  of  working  were  a 
shame  and  an  unutterable  disgrace. 

This  Conference  is  now  the  ruling  power  in  Methodism. 
Yet  that  Conference  has  in  it  a  majority  of  men  who  have 
bowed  the  knee  to  Baal  in  the  secret  lodge.  They  have  wor¬ 
shiped  Baal,  the  sun-god,  whose  god  is  Mah-hah-bone,  the 
“point  within  the  circle”;  the  filthy  god  of  the  Phoenicians,  the 
Phallus,  the  foul  and  filthy  worship  of  nature.  The  majority 
of  those  who  are  in  that  Conference  today  have  sworn  alleg¬ 
iance  to  Baal  at  the  feet  of  his  Worshipful  Masters. 

Hence  that  Church  today  is  not  John  Wesley’s  Church  in  the 
hands  of  holy  men  ;  it  is  in  the  hands  of  accidental  ecclesiastical 
politicians  who  are  voted  upon  once  in  every  four  years,  and 
of  the  Bishops  who  are  their  creation,  some  of  them  not  any 
better  than  themselves,  and  some  of  them  much  better. 

Some  of  the  Bishops  are  men  who  I  am  surprised  to  see 
continuing  there;  men  whose  hearts  are  broken  by  the  wicked¬ 
ness  of  their  Elders  and  fellow  Bishops,  and  the  knowledge 
which  they  have  of  the  corruptions  of  their  Church.  There  are, 
in  that  Conference,  men  who  have  said  that  they  know  not  how 
they  can  continue  to  live  as  Methodist  Bishops.  Some  of  them 
have  contemplated  resignation  if  they  cannot  get  reforma¬ 
tion. 

The  shame  has  been  that 

FROM  THE  VERY  BEGINNING  THEY  TOOK  POLITICS  INTO  THE 

M.  E.  CHURCH. 

They  said,  “  We  will  have  no  more  to  do  with  Wesley’s  men. 
We  do  not  care  for  the  men  who  come  from  England.” 

They  carried  the  narrow  politics  of  that  day  into  the  Church. 
They  degraded  the  Bishopric,  and  put  it  under  the  thumb  of  a 
Convention.  They  rejected  John  Wesley’s  practices  and  prin¬ 
ciples  of  control. 

Has  a  convention  ever  been  a  successful  ruling  power? 
When  a  nation  falls  into  the  hands  of  a  convention,  it  falls  into 
the  hands  of  a  revolution. 

France  was  once  ruled  by  a  Convention,  and  its  rule  was 
that  of  tyranny,  the  guillotine,  and  confiscation. 

At  the  very  beginning,  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
determined  that  the  people  should  rule,  and  that  was  in 


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direct  defiance  of  God’s  law  as  set  forth  by  Christ  and  inspired 
apostles. 

That  is  wrong.  I  challenge  the  principle.  I  challenge  it  in 
politics;  I  challenge  it  in  religion.  I  challenge  the  principle 
that  government  rests  upon  the  consent  of  the  governed.  It 
does  no  such  thing.  Government  rests  upon  God  the  Eternal, 
and  Him  alone.  God  does  not  require  the  consent  of  His  own 
creation  in  order  to  govern  it.  He  governs  by  Divine  Right. 

I  challenge  the  statement  that  government  of  the  people, 
by  the  people  and  for  the  people  is  a  righteous  principle. 

I  challenge  it  upon  this  ground:  The  statistics  published  in 
the  Chronicle  of  today  say  that  in  this  city  there  are  only 
871,000  persons  who  declare  themselves  religious.  Of  these 
600,000  are  Roman  Catholics,  100,000  are  Jews,  171,000  are 
Protestants,  and  the  remainder  of  the  people,  about  1,200,000,  do 
not  profess  any  religion.  I  ask  you,  therefore,  are  the  majority 
of  the  people  in  Chicago  who  do  not  recognize  God  fit  to  rule? 

Voices — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — If  the  majority  ruled,  would  it  be  a  good  govern¬ 
ment? 

Voices — “No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — The  government  of  the  people  must  be  for. 
God  and  by  God.  Zion  believes  in  the  rule  of  God,  not  in  the 
rule  of  the  people.  All  nations  must  ere  long  abandon  their 
“Constitutions,”  and  cheerfully  submit  to  a  Universal  The¬ 
ocracy,  or  they  must  perish  in  the  conflict  with  the  Powers  of 
Heaven.  Zion  proclaims  even  now  the  Gospel  of  the  King¬ 
dom  of  God.  The  Methodist  Church  began  with  the  principles 
of  rule  by  the  people. 

That  was  the  little  rift  within  the  lute 
Which  even  now  has  made  the  music  mute, 

And,  ever-widening,  it  will  silence  all. 

They  have  an  outward  form  of  godliness.  They  have  no 

power. 

john  wesley’s  prophecy  fulfilled. 


John  Wesley  said  in  his  “Thoughts  Upon  Methodism” 
(Works,  Volume  VII,  pages  3 1 5-3 17): 

I  am  not  afraid  that  the  people  called  Methodists  should  ever  cease 
to  exist  either  in  Europe  or  America. 

But  I  am  afraid ,  lest  they  should  only  exist  as  a  Dead  Sect ,  having  the 
Form  of  Religion  without  the  Power. 

And  this  undoubtedly  will  be  the  case ,  unless  they  hold  fast  both  the 
doctrine,  spirit  and  discipline  with  which  they  first  set  out. 

•  1  •  *••••*• 

The  essence  of  Methodism  is  Holiness  of  heart  and  life. 


And  if  ever  the  essential  parts  should  evaporate,  what  remains  will  be 
dung  and  dross. 


The  essentials  have  evaporated. 
The  dung  and  dross  remain. 


134  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

Write  over  Methodism  the  word  Ichabod:  for  “the  glory 
has  departed.” 

Four  years  ago,  when  I  formed  the  Christian  Catholic 
Church  in  Zion,— God  is  my  witness,  and  you  are  my  witnesses 
—I  did  it  most  reluctantly.  I  had  laid  down  my  pastorate  in 
the  Congregational  body  at  a  time  when  many  of  my  brethren 
of  the  Congregational  Union  in  Sydney  signed  a  letter  to  me, 
begging  me  to  withdraw  my  resignation.  I  would  not  with¬ 
draw.  I  said  to  them,  “Brethren,  I  have  done  with  all  churches 
as  they  now  stand.” 

I  made  that  resolution  in  February,  1876.  I  determined  then 
that  I  should  serve  God,  and  evangelize.  I  did  not  want  to  form  a 
Church,  but  I  was  compelled  to  take  care  of  the  converts  whom 
God  gave  me,  whom  the  churches  were  drowning  in  cold  water. 

It  seemed  to  me  as  if  my  heart  would  break  as  I  saw  the  con¬ 
verts  whom  God  gave  me  all  over  the  world,  having  their  piety 
assaulted,  their  purity  destroyed,  and  their  energies  wasted  in 
connection  with  churches  which  hated  the  very  thought  of  the 
Gospel  which  covered  spirit,  soul  and  body;  which  covered,  as 
John  Wesley’s  Gospel  did,  Salvation,  Healing,  and  Holy  living. 

In  1896,  when  this  Church  was  formed,  I  said  that  ope  of 
the  reasons  why  I  formed  the  Church  was  because  I  believed 
that  God  had  called  me  as  His  Messenger  to  do  certain  work 
that  could  only  be  done  by  an  effective  organization.  One  of 
the  things  was  to  go  forth  and  smash  this  Empire  of  Secrecy, 
destroy  the  “unfruitful  works  of  darkness,”  and  incidentally 
to  smash  every  Church  which  protected  these,  or  any  other, 
“works  of  the  Devil.” 

You  remember  I  said  that,  did  I  not? 

Voices— “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — I  went  forth  with  that  purpose. 

ZION’S  WORK  AND  THAT  OF  METHODISM  CONTRASTED. 

I  will  show  what  God  has  done  through  my  ministry  and 
that  of  my  associates,  and  what  God  has  not  done,  but  what 
the  Devil  has  wrought,  in  the  Methodist  Church,  during  these 
four  years. 

Bishop  Warren,  at  the  opening  of  the  Methodist  General 
Conference  of  1896,  delivered  an  eloquent  address  on  behalf  of 
the  Board  of  Bishops.  This  address  was  delivered  on  May  22, 
1896,  and  we  had  formed  our  Church  on  February  22d  the 
same  year. 

Bishop  Warren  said,  speaking  for  the  Bishops  to  the  whole 
Church,  these  words: 

When  the  next  General  Conference  shall  meet  we  shall  be  entering  the 
portals  of  the  Twentieth  Century.  We  desire  to  close  these  nineteen  centu¬ 
ries  of  work  for  the  race  in  a  manner  helpful  to  men  and  satisfactory  to  our 
Lord.  There  is  nowhere  any  greater  privilege.  The  serious  responsibility 
is  as  great  as  the  privilege  is  glorious.  We  recall  the  solemn  admonition 
under  which  many  of  us  were  ordained:  “If  it  shall  happen  that  the 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  135 

Church  or  any  member  thereof  do  take  any  hurt  or  hindrance  by  reason  of 
your  negligence,  ye  know  the  greatness  of  the  fault  and  also  the  fearful 
punishment  that  will  ensue.”  We  beseech  you,  therefore,  first  of  all  that 
you  join  us  in  a  most  earnest  endeavor  to  secure  a  personal  fitness  to  be  a 
proper  medium  in  this  Conference,  through  which  God  can  express  His 
will  concerning  the  churches;  that,  laying  aside  all  unworthy  ambitions,  we 
shall  sincerely  seek  to  know  the  mind  of  the  Spirit,  realizing  that  any 
personal  advantage  that  is  not  for  the  good  of  the  Church  is  for  the  damage 
of  the  individual. 

God’s  thoughts  and  plans  for  His  Church  are  as  high  above  ours  as  the 
heavens  are  above  the  earth.  His  Scriptures  are  full  of  promises.  His 
skies  are  full  of  Pentecosts.  “Ask  what  ye  will  and  it  shall  be  done  unto 
you,”  is  the  limitless  Divine  promise.  Heaven  and  earth  are  put  in  pledge 
for  fulfilment. 

When  I  read  that  I  said,  “No;  heaven  and  earth  are  not  on 
your  side.  Heaven  is  against  you,  and  earth  is  against  you.” 
I  said  that  from  my  platform  in  Zion  Tabernacle  No.  2. 

What  has  happened?  Four  years  have  passed  away;  Zion 
stands  today  with  her  flag  planted  on  every  continent  and  with 
the  most  magnificent  site  for  a  City,  of  more  than  eleven  square 
miles,  that  ever  came  into  people’s  hands,  being  swiftly  pre¬ 
pared  for  occupation,  near  Chicago.  (Applause.) 

Zion  stands  today  with  splendidly  equipped  men  leading 
her  forces  in  Asia,  Africa,  Australia,  America,  Europe,  and  in 
the  Islands  of  the  Seas. 

Zion  stands  with  a  well  equipped  printing  plant;  with  a 
College  in  which  there  are  representatives  from  over  twenty 
nations. 

Zion  stands  today  with  thousands  of  her  people  working  in 
the  manner  in  which  Christ  directed,  from  house  to  house,  in 
thousands  throughout  the  world. 

How  does  Methodism  stand  after  these  four  years?  The 
facts  will  very  much  astonish  you,  and  will  grieve  you. 

It  grieved  me,  but  it  was  in  confirmation  of  what  I  expected 
would  come  from  that  degenerate  and  Apostate  Church. 

I  will  not  go  into  the  figures  of  all  the  four  years.  It  would 
be  tedious,  but  I  will  take  the  last  year,  which  Bishop  Warren 
said  was  to  be  the  banner  year  of  Methodism ;  the  splendid 
year  of  Methodism. 

I  hold  in  my  hand  the  book  from  which  I  shall  now  quote 
some  terrible  figures.  It  is  official.  It  contains  the  Minutes 
of  the  Annual  Conferences,  both  the  Spring  and  Fall,  of  1899. 
Upon  page  646,  in  Table  No.  1,  are  the  figures  which  I  am 
quoting. 

TERRIBLE  FALL  OF  THE  METHODIST  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH. 

Bishop  Warren  said  that  heaven  and  earth  were  pledged  to 
fulfil  your  cry;  that  you  should  have  a  great  year  for  victory. 
Heaven  and  earth  were  against  you  Mah-hah-bones,  children 

of  Baal. 


136  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

John  Wesley’s  prophesy  which  I  have  just  quoted  is  fulfilled 
and  you  “only  exist  as  a  Dead  Sect,  having  the  Form  of  Re¬ 
ligion  without  the  Power.” 

This  Table  declares  that  the  total  number  of  probationers 
and  members  at  the  end  of  1898  was  2,893,883. 

During  the  year  1899  there  came  into  the  Church  no  less 
than  257,699  probationers.  Add,  therefore,  the  number  at  the 
beginning  of  the  year  to  the  number  of  probationers  who  came 
in  during  the  year  and  their  numbers  ought  to  have  been,  if 
they  had  retained  their  probationers,  3,151,582. 

Instead  of  this  number  they  confessed  that  the  entire  num¬ 
ber  both  of  probationers  and  members  at  the  end  of  1899  was 
2,874,037. 

This,  therefore,  shows  that  during  the  year  1899  the  Meth¬ 
odist  Episcopal  Church  lost  277,545.  The  deaths  are  accounted 
for  in  another  column. 

That  awful  loss  is  not  admitted.  Look  at  the  meanness  and 
lying  of  their  editorial  writers. 

They  say:  “Oh  that  is  not  the  right  way  to  count  it.  We 
began  the  year  with  2,893,883;  we  ended  with  2,874,037.  We 
only  lost  19,846.” 

What  shameful  falsehood. 

You  lost  nearly  19,847  of  those  you  started  the  year  with, 
and  a  number  equal  to  all  who  came  in  that  year,  namely,  257,699. 

How  long  will  God  bear  with  shepherds  who  not  only  lose  all 
the  lambs,  but  who  cannot  keep  the  old  sheep  in?  You  have 
fallen.  You  are  going  down  a  sliding  scale.  At  the  bottom, 
as  John  Wesley  said,  “what  remains  is  dung  and  dross.”  All 
who  do  not  want  to  end  their  days  in  such  company  will  get 
out  quickly. 

Your  statistics  also  show  that  last  year  you  closed  with  136 
less  preachers  on  trial.  Does  that  not  show  a  Fall? 

Your  statistics  show  that  you  closed  the  year  with  244  less 
local  preachers.  Does  that  not  show  a  Fall? 

The  strength  of  Methodism  at  the  beginning  was  its  local 
preachers;  and  whenever  Methodism  loses  the  support  of  its 
laity,  it  has  become  “dung  and  dross.” 

Last  year  you  increased  the  number  of  Sunday  Schools  by 
182,  but  what  increase  was  there  in  those  who  attended?  Your 
statistics  show  that  you  lost  2553  teachers  and  officers  and 
17,850  scholars.  You  lost  20,403  scholars  and  teachers,  but  you 
increased  the  number  of  your  schools.  Does  not  that  show  a 
Fall? 

GOD  CAN  NO  LONGER  USE  THE  METHODIST  CHURCH. 

Increase  the  number  of  your  schools;  increase  the  number 
of  your  teachers;  continue  to  pray  as  you  have  prayed,  and 
live  as  you  have  lived,  and  you  will  find  that  you  will  go  swifter 
and  swifter  down  into  the  vortex  of  annihilation  and  oblivion. 


137 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

Your  day  has  gone.  John  Wesley’s  sad  foreboding  is  a  fact 
and  you  “only  exist  as  a  Dead  Sect.” 

God  cannot  use  you. 

You  are  controlled  by  the  Devil. 

God  will  not  hear  your  prayer. 

Your  Bishops  plead  in  vain. 

Your  good  people  pray  in  vain. 

They  preach  in  vain.  There  is  no  answer. 

God  is  through  with  the  Methodist  Church. 

At  the  rate  it  is  going  down,  its  hall  will  soon  end  in  its 
utter  destruction. 

“Oh,”  you  say,  “it  is  too  big  for  that.” 

The  Jewish  Church  was  immensely  bigger,  and  it  has  ceased 
to  exist.  There  is  no  Jewish  Church  in  existence  now.  There 
are  Jewish  strangers;  there  are  Jewish  pilgrims;  there  are  Jews 
wailing  outside  the  walls  of  Jerusalem.  But  they  have  no 
Temple,  they  have  no  sacrifice;  they  have  no  Church;  and  in 
some  of  their  synagogues  many  are  crying  “  There  is  no  Comine 
One,  no  Messiah,  no  God.” 

Soon  it  will  be  that  there  will  be  wailing  in  the  Methodist 
Church. 

.  Methodism  is  dead.  It  may  take  some  time  before  it  will 
disappear.  Dung  and  Dross,”  which  are  even  unfit  for  fertiliz¬ 
ing,  is  apparently  all  that  is  left. 

The  Church  of  Rome  is  dead,  but  it  still  maintains  an  out¬ 
ward  appearance.  It  still  has  many  temples,  but  it  is  dead. 
It  is  rotten.  It  is  passing  away  in  the  very  lands  where  it  has 
so  long  held  away.  The  infidels  are  ready  to  tear  it  to 
pieces  in  all  Latin  countries. 

In  Italy,  where  the  Pope  had  his  kingdom,  infidelity  num¬ 
bers  far  more  than  Rome  itself. 

There  is  no  place  where  Rome  has  made  any  real  progress 
for  a  long  time — probably  thirty  years. 

“  Dung  and  Dross !  ” 

Roman  Catholicism  is  perishing.  It  has  an  outward  name 
to  live,  but  it  is  dead. 

Methodism  has  lost  the  spirit  of  Wesley.  It  has  trans¬ 
gressed  the  Laws;  it  has  changed  the  Ordinance;  it  has 
broken  the  Everlasting  Covenant. 

METHODISTS  HAVE  CHANGED  THE  ORDINANCE  OF  BAPTISM. 

One  of  the  Ordinances  which  it  has  changed  terribly  is  the 
Ordinance  of  Baptism. 

It  has  changed  it  from  a  truth  into  a  lie. 

It  declares  in  its  Discipline  that  Baptism  is  “a  Sign  of 
Regeneration  or  the  New  Birth,”  and  at  the  same  time  extends 
it  to  infants,  as  if  to  say  that  these  children  were  regenerated 
by  Baptism. 


1 38  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

That  is  a  lie.  Water  never  changed  any  baby’s  heart.  Did 
it  change  yours? 

Dr  Dowie— But  that  lie  is  in  their  Discipline.  There  is 
only  one  Baptism,  and  that  is  Triune  Immersion,  into  the 
Name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost. 
That  was  the  Ordinance  of  Baptism  of  the  Church  for  seven 
centuries  without  one  single  break,  excepting  that  of  Eunomius, 
who  denied  the  Divinity  of  Christ,  and  was  rejected  by  the 

Church. 

METHODISTS  HAVE  BROKEN  THE  EVERLASTING  COVENANT. 

The  Covenant  of  God  is  a  Covenant  of  Salvation,  and  Heal- 

ing,  and  Holy  Living.  , 

You  have  talked  of  Salvation,  but  you  do  not  get  people 

saved.  .  . 

You  have  rejected  Divine  Healing. 

You  have  rejected  Holy  Living. 

You  have 'broken  the  Everlasting  Covenant,  and  you  must 

perish  as  an  organization.  .  .  , 

Oh  God  in  the  heavens,  destroy  that  organization  by  the 

Might  of  Thy  Spirit,  but  save  the  people  for  Thy  Dear  Son  s 

sake.  (Amen.)  . 

All  who  desire  God  to  do  this,  stand.  (The  entire  audi¬ 
ence,  with  some  exceptions,  arose.) 

PRAYER  OF  CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus'  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  1 
am  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 
grace  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs;  to  repent,  to  restore,  to  do  right 
m  all  men  and  in  Thy  sight.  Give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit  to  live  for  Thee ,  to 
destroy  evil.  Hear  my  cry  with  all  in  Zion  that  Thou  shouldst  destroy  every 
unclean  Church.  Destroy  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  whose  leaders 
are  following  after  Baal.  Destroy  the  organization,  but  save  the  people, 
for  Jesus'  sake.  Amen.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  D  . 

Dowie.)  .  .  , 

Zion’s  White-robed  Choir  then  sang  their  Recessional  as 
they  passed  out,  and  the  General  Overseer  closed  the  meeting 
with  the  following 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil,  and  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly,  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  ou 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you  who  also  will  do  it,  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  J  ather,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you,  bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


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EIGHTH  DISCOURSE. 


THE  last  week  of  the  memorable  three  weeks  of  Zion’s 
Conflict  with  the  Methodist  Apostasy  was,  in  many 
respects,  the  most  glorious.  The  great  victory  of  the  Lord’s 
Day,  when  the  Rise,  Progress  and  Fall  of  Methodism  in 
America  was  so  clearly  shown  by  the  General  Overseer,  was 
followed  by  much  earnest  thought  among  many  of  the 
Methodist  ministers  and  laymen  attending  the  General  Con¬ 
ference  in  Chicago.  Results  of  this  were  made  manifest  in 
the  number  of  expressions  of  sympathy  and  good  wishes 
which  reached  the  General  Overseer  from  Delegates,  some 
of  them  being  men  of  national  reputation. 

Then  on  Tuesday  evening  the  wicked,  lying  Silence  of 
Secrecy,  with  its  diabolical  fruits,  was  shown  in  remarkable 
Contrast  with  the  free,  true,  Open  Speech  of  Christianity, 
with  its  most  blessed  fruits.  So  clear  did  the  man  of  God 
make  this  Contrast  that  conviction  settled  in  many  a  heretofore 
hesitating  or  opposing  heart,  and  the  people,  at  the  close, 
were  almost  unanimously  with  the  speaker. 

Quickly  they  arose  to  express  their  determination  to  fight 
the  Devil,  not  with  his  diabolical  weapons  of  Darkness  and 
Secrecy,  but  with  the  weapons  of  God,  Open  Speech  and  the 
Light  of  Truth.  God  greatly  blessed  those  who  made  this 
consecration,  and  many  before  blinded  as  to  the  real  heathen, 
diabolical  nature  of  Secretism,  through  this  and  other  dis¬ 
courses,  are  seeing  the  truth  and  are  coming  out  from  the 
darkness  of  that  abomination.  a.  w.  n. 

Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Tuesday  Evening,  May  22,  1900. 

The  services  were  begun  by  the  congregation  singing  Hymn 
Number  28 : 

I  know  I  love  Thee  better,  Lord, 

Than  any  earthly  joy; 

For  Thou  hast  given  me  the  peace 
Which  nothing  can  destroy. 

Chorus — The  half  has  never  yet  been  told 
Of  love  so  full  and  free! 

The  half  has  never  yet  been  told, 

The  blood — it  cleanseth  me! 

SCRIPTURE  READING  AND  EXPOSITION. 

The  General  Overseer  then  read  from  the  Gospel  of  St. 
John,  third  chapter,  from  the  fourteenth  to  the  twenty-first  verse. 
He  also  read  from  the  eighteenth  chapter  of  St.  John,  begin¬ 
ning  at  the  nineteenth  verse. 


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ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  ME THODIS T  APOS TASY.  1 4 1 


The  high  priest  therefore  asked  Jesus  of  His  disciples,  and  of  His 
teaching. 

“Tell  us  about  the  people  who  are  your  disciples.  Tell  us 
about  your  doctrine.” 

Jesus  answered  Him,  I  have  spoken  openly  to  the  World ;  I  ever  taught 
in  the  synagogues,  and  in  the  Temple,  where  all  the  Jews  come  together; 
and  in  secret  spake  I  nothing. 

That  was  His  answer:  “What  is  the  use  of  talking  to  Me 
about  My  disciples,  and  about  My  teaching?  You  are  only 
pretending  ignorance.  I  did  not  teach  in  a  corner.  I  did  not 
teach  in  a  secret  lodge.” 

Get  that  into  your  mind.  That  is  the  essential  fact  in  con¬ 
nection  with  Christ.  He  did  not  fight  the  Devil  with  the 
Devil’s  weapons.  Fight  darkness  with  light.  That  is  what  dark¬ 
ness  hates.  Let  light  fall  upon  it,  and  it  shrinks  into  the  dark 
holes.  Any  Society  which  needs  to  find  darkness  to  conceal  its 
actions,  is  guilty  of  evil  designs  or  evil  practices.  Any  teacher 
who  must  teach  Secret  Mysteries,  is  not  a  Christian.  He 
does  not  follow  Christ. 

Why  askest  thou  Me?  ask  them  that  have  heard  Me,  what  I  spake  unto 
them :  behold,  these  know  the  things  which  I  said. 

“Ask  your  own  wives,  daughters  and  sons — ask  the  serv¬ 
ants  of  the  Temple,  and  the  soldiers  whom  you  sent  to  arrest 
Me,  who  came  back  and  told  you  that  they  coul'd  not  touch 
Me.  When  you  asked  them  why,  they  said,  ‘Because  never 
man  spake  like  this  Man.’  ” 

“Ask  them  what  I  said.  What  is  the  use  of  asking  the  man 
whom  you  charge  with  crime.  Do  not  ask  Me  what  I  said.  I 
talked  openly.  What  I  said,  I  said.  I  said  nothing  in  secret.” 

That  is  the  great  joy  in  Christianity.  God  wants  everybody 
to  know  everything  He  has  to  tell.  It  is  a  great  open  secret, 
and  those  who  are  most  in  the  light  see  most.  Those  who  are 
walking  in  their  own  shadow,  and  the  shadows  of  their  com¬ 
panions,  do  not  see  at  all.  Oh  what  fantastic  figures  they  see; 
their  companions  around  them  walking  in  darkness.  Oh  let  us 
walk  in  the  Light,  in  the  Light  of  God.  Prayer  was  then  offered 
by  Overseers  Speicher  and  Piper;  also  by  the  General  Overseer. 

The  tithes  and  offerings  were  then  received. 


THE  SILENCE  OF  SECRECY  AND  THE  OPEN 
SPEECH  OF  CHRISTIANITY  CONTRASTED. 


The  General  Overseer  then  delivered  the  following  address: 

INVOCATION. 

Let  the  words  of  my  mouth  and  the  meditation  of  my  heart  be  accept¬ 
able  in  Thy  sight  and  profitable  unto  this  people,  and  unto  all  to  whom  these 
words  shall  come,  for  the  sake  of  Jesus,  our  Lord,  our  Strength  and  our 
Redeemer. 


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I  speak  to  you  tonight  concerning  the  Silence  of  Secrecy 
contracted  with  the  Open  Speech  of  Christianity.  I  ^nnot  do 
better  than  quote  the  words  of  our  Loid  Jesus,  which  I  h 
already  quoted  and  emphasized: 

TEXT. 

I  have  spoken  openly  to  the  World;  I  ever  taught  in  synagogues,  and 
in  the  Temple,  where  all  the  Jews  come  together;  and  m  Secret  spake  I 

nothing. 

The  indignation  of  Christ  was  very  great  when  He  was 
asked  to  talk  of  His  disciples  and  of  His  teaching.  I  can 
understand  it  personally,  because,  by  His  grace,  my  own  teach¬ 
ing  has  been  plain.  I  have  had  nothing  to  say  in  Secret.  I 

haVOne°of  the  striking  things  in  connection  with  Secrecy 
is  its  silence.  Its  only  chance  to  prolong  its  life  is  to  keep 

StllAs  I  said  on  Sabbath  Day,  they  have  not  the  spirit  of  a 
louse.  They  have  no  spirit  at  all  except  the  Spirit  of  Fear, 
and  that  Evil  Spirit  is  without  the  courage  of  a  flea.  I  despise 
all  the  millions  of  Oathbound  Secretists  for  their  submission 

to  Fear. 

Cowards ! 

They  are  afraid  to  talk.  .  . 

“Oh”  they  say,  “as  Masons  we  pledge  ourselves  to 

Secrecy!”  That  is  the  biggest  lie  of  all:  for  they  have  no 

Secret  which  they  can  pledge.  Fn<x 

In  182;  the  Republican ,  a  paper  published  in  London,  Fn& 
land,  published  every  word  of  the  first  three  degrees  of  Free¬ 
masonry.  I  hold  in  my  hand  a  book  compiled  in  England  a 
year  or’ two  later  by  Richard  Carlile,  and  published  by  Reeves 
&  Turner,  196,  Strand.  It  contains  a  Manual  of  Freemasonry. 
The  first  part  contains  the  first  three  degrees  with  an  introduc¬ 
tory  keystone  to  the  Royal  Arch.  The  second  part  contains 
the  Royal  Arch,  Knights  Templar  and  Druids,  with  explanatory 

note  of  introduction.  T  c.  a  ~ 

That  was  published  somewhere  about  1835.  I  find  no  date 

upon  it,  but  I  know  it  was  about  that  date  and  it  refers  to  the 
fact  in  its  introductory  matter  that  the  Republican  had  pub- 
lished  the  truth  in  1825.  Mr.  Carlile  says:  _ 

If  we  make  ourselves  acquainted  with  all  that  Masons  know  of  their 
F  reemasomy,  we°shall 'find  aVnk,  and  that,  in  fact,  they  know  nothing 
worthy  of  being  called  a  secret. 

He  goes  onto  say:  “Of  Freemasons,  I  boldly  say  that  they 
have  no  secret.” 

He  says  that  in  1825  in  the  Republican: 

The  following  forms  of  opening,  working,  and  closing  lodges  are  literally 
and  truly  the  formularies  of  the  three  common  degrees  in  Masonic  lodges, 
or  that  secret  system  which  is  called  Craft  Masonry.  It  has  been  commum- 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

cated  to  me  by  Masons;  it  has  been  confirmed  by  other  Masons, 
has  made  many  Masons  without  the  lodge  initiation. 

THE  MASONS  HAVE  NO  SECRETS  IN  THEIR  LOWER  DEGREES. 

This  declaration  also  was  made  by  Elder  Bernard  in  “Light 
on  Masonry.”  It  is  also  my  declaration,  for  I  declare  to  you, 
and  I  have  again  and  again  declared  to  you,  that  Freemasons 
have  vowed  to  me  that  ex-Worshipful  Master  Ronayne’s  hand¬ 
book  gives  all  the  so-called  secrets. 

It  is  a  downright  lie  to  say  that  these  degrees  are  secret  at 
all.  You  can  buy  for  twenty-five  cents  in  Chicago  the  whole 
of  the  first  three  degrees  of  Masonry.  Masonic  Lodges  fraud¬ 
ulently  charge  large  Initiation  Fees  for  Secrets  which  any  one 
can  buy  for  a  quarter  of  a  dollar.  There  are  twenty-five  of  our 
brethren  who  will  work  this  thing  out  upon  this  platform  as  they 
used  to  work  it  out  when  they  were  in  a  Masonic  lodge.  If  any 
Mason  says  that  their  exemplification  is  not  true,  then  that 
Mason  lies.  When  you  accuse  Masons  of  lying,  they  only  smile. 
They  have  promised  to  lie.  They  have  promised  to  conceal, 
and  they  can  only  continue  to  conceal  by  lying.  That  is  a  fact' 

Masons,  for  instance,  in  this  city  have  had  brought  to  them 
my  own  pamphlet  on  Secret  Societies,  which  has  had  a  very 
large  circulation.  It  was  published  in  1898.  I  should  estimate 
that  over  1^0,000  copies  of  that  have  gone  out.  All  over  this 
land,  women  have  gone  to  their  husbands  and  said:  “John,  is 
this  true?”  and  John  has  only  smiled  and  said,  “What  does 
that  fellow  Dowie  know  about  it?  He  is  not  a  Freemason.” 

A  lady  who  is  quick  and  clever  said,  “John,  that  is  exactly 
what  Dr.  Dowie  says  here  you  would  say.” 

“  Did  he  say  that?” 

“  Yes.” 

“Clever  fellow,  isn’t  he,  to  foresee  what  I  would  say?” 

Yes;  he  said  that  you  would  say  that  he  knew  nothing  of 
Masonry.” 

“What  has  he  to  say  to  that?” 

“He  says  that  many  of  the  ex-Masons  who  are  around  him 
say  he  knows  more  about  Masonry  than  they  do,  and  they  say 
that  what  he  says  about  it  is  true.  They  all  say  that.” 

“Oh,  it  is  no  use  talking  to  me  about  it.  I  will  not  talk  to 
you.  There  is  no  use  talking  to  you.” 

“John,  if  you  have  taken  these  things,  you  have  taken  an 
oath  to  break  the  law  of  God  and  the  law  of  man.  The  law  of 

man  does  not  permit  anybody  to  administer  an  oath,  unless  he 
is  a  magistrate.” 

THE  MASONIC  OATH  CONTRARY  TO  LAW  BECAUSE  NOT  LEGALLY 

ADMINISTERED. 

When  people  administer  oaths,  they  must  be  qualified  to 
administer  that  oath  by  the  judicial  powers  of  the  land.  They 
must  have  the  legislative,  and  they  must  have  the  judicial,  and 


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I44  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

they  must  have  the  executive  powers— this  government  all 
working  together— to  give  them  the  power  to  administer  an 

oath.  Do  you  not  know  that?  .  . 

No  one  in  the  United  States  has  aright  to  administer  an 

oath  unless  he  be  appointed  or  elected  thereto  appointed  by 
the  Executive  at  Washington  or  elected  by  the  people  and 
then  it  must  be  in  conformity  with  the  law,  and  then  that  power 
must  be  conferred  by  another  judge  and  one  who  has  the  power 

to  administer  an  oath.  .  ,  ,  . 

I  tell  you  that,  as  a  matter  of  law,  no  one  has  a  right  to 

administer  an  oath  unless  he  has  legislative  and  judicial  and 

executive  authority  to  confer  that  power.  .  .  «  i 

Now  as  to  the  Worshipful  Master  of  a  Masonic  lodge,  do 

the  people  give  him  that  power? 

DhDowie— Who  gives  him  that  power?  What  right  has 
he  to  administer  an  oath  to  a  man,  making  him  swear  that  he 
will  submit  to  all  kinds  of  indignities,  and  all  kinds  of  hor 

He  has  no  more  power  to  administer  it  than  Jesse  James 
the  robber  had  to  administer  an  oath  to  his  gang.  No  Masonic 
g-ane  is  any  better  than  any  robber  s  gang  in  that  matter. 

^  f  therefore  say  that  they  may  well  keep  silent,  because,  if 
they  were  to  open  their  mouths,  they  would  confess  themselves 

to  be  lawbreakers.  ,  \ 

Well  may  they  be  silent  when  they  are  charged  as  to  the 

nature  of  the  oath' that  they  have  have  taken,  and  adl"l{Jlst^e?’ 
They  are  lawbreakers,  both  in  administering  the  oath  and  in 

inflicting  the  penalty. 

THE  SILENCE  OF  SECRECY  IS  THE  SILENCE  WHICH  COVERS  GUILT. 

It  does  not  cover  innocence.  It  does  not  cover  truth.  It 
does  not  cover  purity.  It  does  not  cover  that  which  is  right 
and  lawful.  It  covers  the  infernal  works  of  darkness.  The 
Silence  of  Secrecy  is  only  kept  up  by  continual  lying. 

Deacon  Judd  told  us  that  among  the  things  that  damaged 
and  injured  him  through  being  a  Freemason  was  his  being  led 

into  bad  company.  ,  . 

He  thought  it  was  very  nice  at  first  to  be  in  company  wit 

Dr.  Lorimer,  the  Baptist  minister,  and  others  of  that  k,  ; 
But  he  found  that  the  company  which  they  kept,  which  he  ha 
to  keep,  was  the  company  of  whoremasters,  adulterers,  dru 
ards  lfars,  and  dirty  dogs  who  went  from  the  Masonic  Lodge 
to  the  harlot’s  house.  He  had  not  been  a  profane  swearer,  but 
he  learned  how  to  swear  and  how  to  lie.  He  said  he  ne\  er  lied 

to  his  wife  until  he  became  a  Freemason.  .  ,  , 

The  Masons  have  to  tell  lies.  All  over  the  land  tonight, 
the  Masons  everywhere  have  been  driven  by  our  exposures,  an 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  I45 

those  of  others,  to  either  admit  the  truth  of  what  we  say  or 
to  lie,  and  they  lie. 

They  prefer  to  lie  so  that  the  oath  to  conceal  is  really,  liter¬ 
ally,  an  oath  to  lie. 

This  concealment,  therefore,  is  prejudicial,  not  merely  to  the 
interests  of  the  home  and  of  the  man,  and  of  his  character  and 
of  his  family,  but  it  is  prejudicial  to  the  commercial  interests  of 
the  people. 

They  help  each  other  in  lying.  It  is  prejudicial  to  the 
transportation  interests  of  the  people.  I  will  give  you  an  illus¬ 
tration  of  it  from  a  railroad  point  of  view. 

I  do  not  care  to  air  our  personal  grievances  upon  this  plat¬ 
form,  but  there  are  over  one  hundred  ordained  officers  in  Zion 
who  give  their  whole  time  to  this  ministry.  Some  of  them 
were  Methodist  ministers,  Baptist  ministers,  Congregational 
ministers,  before  they  became  lay  members  of  Zion;  before 
they  were  baptized  in  Zion  and  were  ordained. 

When  they  were  ministers  of  these  denominations  they  had 
no  difficulty  in  getting  the  regular  ministerial  rates  on  the  rail¬ 
ways,  but  when  they  came  into  Zion,  not  one  of  these  brethren 
could  get  ministerial  rates. 

Why?  Two  of  the  controlling  Commissioners,  who  are 
Methodists  and  Masons,  have  lied  about  Zion  to  the  railways, 
and  are  in  a  position  in  connection  with  that  matter  to  refuse 
these  rates.  When  one  of  these  Commissioners  was  brought 
to.  face  the  fact  that  he  was  committing  a  great  injustice,  he 
said,  “I  am  a  damned  good  Methodist.”  (Laughter.) 

Where  did  he  tell  it  to  you,  Overseer  Speicher? 

Overseer  Speicher — “In  his  own  office  in  the  Monadnock 
Building.” 

ZION  DEPRIVED  OF  HER  RIGHTFUL  PRIVILEGES  BY  MASONIC 

METHODISTS. 

Dr.  Dowie — He  told  Overseer  Speicher,  when  he  was  taxed 
with  this,  that  he  was  a  “damned  good  Methodist,”  and  that 
was  one  of  the  reasons  he  was  “not  going  to  give  that 
damned  Dr.  Dowie  and  his  damned  Church  any  privileges 
at  all.” 

You  see  what  a  fine  Methodist  and  Mason  he  was. 

There-is  no  question  at  all  about  it.  The  Interstate  Com¬ 
merce  Commission  has  been  lied  toby  these  men  so  completely 
— and  they  perhaps  are  Masons  themselves — that  they  have 
denied  Zion  the  usual  privileges.  I  do  not  care  anything  about 
it,  because  Zion  can  send  her  Messengers  wherever  she  wants 
to,  and  can  pay  the  full  fare.  Indeed,  as  far  as  I  myself  am 
concerned,  I  very  seldom  can  afford  to  travel  by  the  accom¬ 
modation  trains.  I  nearly  always  have  to  go  by  the  limited 
trains.  If  I  could  go  by  a  quicker  train,  I  would  take  it.  I 
would  like  to  travel  in  an  air  ship. 


146  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

We  are  robbed  in  that  way  of  hundreds  and  perhaps  thou¬ 
sands  of  dollars  annually  on  the  railways,  just  because  of  this 

accursed,  lying  Masonry.  ,  „•  • 

What  Mr.  D - said  was  “  Damned  good  Methodism  is  in 

power.  It  is  shocking  to  hear  the  words,  but  he  told  the  truth. 

He  is  a  Methodist.  So  is  the  Devil. 

The  Devil  is  a  “damned  good  Methodist.  He  is  damned, 
and  his  goodness  is  his  evil.  The  light  that  is  in  him  is 

I  desire  to  press  the  point,  that  on  every  side  you  will  find 

this  silence  and  lying  of  secrecy.  T 

I  am  watching  some  things  down  at  Washington.  1  am 
going  to  speak  about  them  in  due  time.  You  cannot  muzzle  me. 

I  utter  this  warning  to  the  politicians.  You  look  sharp  y 
out.  You  take  care  what  you  are  about.  God  answers  my 
prayer.  You  cannot  rob  Zion  with  impunity.  . 

Elijah  prayed  that  it  might  not  rain,  and  he  prayed  that  it 
might  God  heard  him  both  times.  Paul  prayed  that  a  man 
might  be  healed,  and  he  also  prayed  that  a  man  might  go  to 
the  Devil.  In  fact,  he  did  more  than  that;  he  delivered  one 
unto  Satan  for  the  destruction  of  the  flesh.  There  are  some 
people  who  have  to  be  handed  over  to  the  Devil,  where  they 
belong.  It  will  take  an  Apostle  to  do  that,  but  it  can  be  done. 
Just  as  sure  as  there  is  a  God  in  the  heavens,  it  has  been  done. 

ZION’S  ENEMIES  HANDED  OVER  TO  SATAN  FOR  THE  DESTRUCTION 

OF  THE  FLESH. 

Not  one  editor  of  all  who  fought  Zion  in  1894  and  1895 
in  an  editorial  chair  today.  Nearly  all  of  them  are  dead  and 
in  hell.  They  died  as  they  lived.  They  were  bad,  and  I  said 
if  they  did  not  repent  they  would  die.  The.  editors  of  this 
time  are  going  on  in  the  same  bad  way,  and  will  come  to  t  e 

same  bad  end.  ,  , 

You  cannot  play  with  edged  tools  and  not  get  cut,  you  tools. 

You  cannot  run  up  against  the  Eternal  Rock  and  not  get  hurt. 
You  cannot  laugh  at  the  grinding-stones  in  the  mill  ot  God. 
If  you  do  not  get  out  from  under,  you  will  be  ground  to  powder. 

“The  mills  of  God  grind  slowly,  but  they  grind  exceeding 
fine  ”  You  may  well  be  silent  over  all  the  land,  you  Secretists. 

Look  at  the  press  of  this  city.  Silent  as  the  grave  about 
thpcip  Fxnnsures 

It  has-been  trying  to  get  up  a  great  many  idiotic  lies  about 

Even  the  lies  will  not  do.  This  time  they  will  not  go  off. 
Something  is  damp.  The  powder  does  not  burn. 

Fdr  two  weeks  they  have  been  getting  out  a  play.  Inis  is 
the  first  public  mention  I  have  made  of  it  from  this  platform, 
because  the  thing  is  dead,  and  I  may  just  as  well  say  a  word 
about  it  now. 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  1 47 

Several  weeks  ago  I  was  told  that  there  was  a  play  being 
prepared  burlesquing  Zion,  and  asked  if  I  would  stop  it.  “  Oh,” 
I  said,  “no.  The  idea  of  stopping  it.  What  a  mistake  it  would 
be.  '  Let  the  Devil  go  ahead.” 

I  saw  this  play  advertised,  called  “Zowie’s  Dion.”  It  was 
to  be  given  in  the  Lyric  Theatre.  I  took  no  notice  of  it.  I 
had  letters  calling  my  attention  to  it.  A  number  of  reports 
appeared  in  the  papers,  saying  that  I  was  in  a  dreadful  rage 
about  it;  that  I  was  just  stamping  and  jumping  with  rage,  and 
had  consulted  my  attorney,  and  would  get  out  warrants  and 
injunctions  and  suits.  All  these  reports  were  lies. 

I  was  hoping  the  Devil  would  advertise  effectually.  I 
hoped  he  would  go  ahead.  It  does  not  matter  to  me;  the 
more  he  howls  the  more  everybody  of  sense  can  see  that  he  is 
hurt. 

Last  Saturday  I  got  a  most  amusing  letter. 

It  was  brought  into  Zion  by  a  gentleman  who  came  in  puff¬ 
ing  a  cigar.  By  the  time  he  got  to  the  desk  he  had  been  told 
twice  to  put  that  cigar  out.  The  clerk  at  the  desk  told  him  we 
would  not  talk  to  him  at  all  with  that  cigar  in  his  mouth. 

He  wanted  to  see  Dr.  Dowie. 

“You  cannot  see  Dr.  Dowie,”  he  was  told. 

“Well,  but  I  have  important  business  with  him,”  he  insisted. 

“You  cannot  see  him.  I  know  he  has  made  no  engage¬ 
ment  with  you,”  said  the  clerk.  The  clerk  knows  that  I  do  not 
cultivate  the  friendship  of  “  stinkpots,”  as  we  call  those  who 
eat  and  smoke  tobacco. 

“Well,”  he  said,  “anyhow,  will  he  get  this  letter,  if  I  leave 
it?” 

“Yes,  he  will  get  the  letter,”  was  the  reply. 

The  letter  was  brought  to  me,  which  is  as  follows: 

Don’t  permit  yourself  to  be  ridiculed.  Don’t  allow  Henson  and  his 
followers  to  laugh  at  the  vulgar,  bawdy-house  jokes  and  slang  that  is  to  be 
put  in  the  mouths  of  these  “  angels  and  satans.”  See  your  lawyer,  get  your 
warrants  ready  and  take  them  off  the  stage  as  soon  as  the  angels  appear, 

Chicago,  May  19, 1900. 

Dr.  Dowie  (or  those  who  represent  him): 

The  most  outrageous  insult  ever  offered  to  man  will  be  given  you  Sun¬ 
day  next  (tomorrow  afternoon)  at  the  Lyric  Theatre. 

You  ca7i  stop  it.  Go  to  Mayor  Harrison  and  have  him  forbid  it.  It  is 
called  “  Zowie’s  Dion  Dames.”  No  doubt  you’ve  seen  the  bills. 

You  are  doing  good  work.  Continue  it.  You  are  making  friends. 

Have  these  naked  women  hauled  to  the  station  in  the  patrol  wagons. 
Take  them  red-handed— in  their  angelic  and  Satanic  dresses.  Nip  it  in  the 
bud  tomorrow.  Your  Friend,  William  J.  Fisher. 

The  Mayor  have  heard  of  it.  He  should  forbid  the  giving  of  the  piece. 

.  We  see  tonight  that  not  only  has  the  play  failed,  but  its 
failure  has  closed  up  the  theatre. 

These  people  thought  they  could  do  something.  The  Open 
Speech  of  Christianity  is  far  more  effective  than  the  Secrecy 


148  ZION' S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


of  Masonry.  An  insult  to  myself  and  Zion  was  not  popular 

even  with  the  theatre-goers  of  Chicago.  .  . 

Who  are  the  men  who  are  reaching  the  people,  and  winning 

men  to  God  in  this  city  Are  they  Freemasons? 

Voices — “No.”  . 

Dr.  Dowie— Where  does  the  largest  congregation  in  Chicago 

assemble  every  week?  .  „ 

Voices— “In  Central  Zion  Tabernacle 

Dr  Dowie— When  I  have  gone  around  to  the  other  laber- 
nacles  in  this  city  on  the  Sabbath  Day,  it  has  been  my  privilege 
to  speak  to  about  8000  or  9000  people  in  a  day  in  this  city. 

The  only  reason  I  did  not  speak  to  more  on  many  occasions 
was  because  there  was  not  room  for  them  in  the  buildings. 


THE  OPEN  SPEECH  OF  CHRISTIANITY  IS  ITS  POWER. 


When  John  Wesley  could  not  speak  in  the  churches,  he 

spoke  on  the  church-yard  tombstones. 

H  What  a  power  those  sermons  under  the  canopy  of  heaven 
were  !  What  we  need  is  Open  Speech.  I  think  that  Christianity 
has  been  nearly  killed  in  synagogues.  It  has  been  nearly  kil  ed 
in  churches.  It  is  about  time  that  it  burst  out  again  into  the 

open,  free  air  of  heaven.  , 

I  hope  when  we  get  to  Zion  City  we  shah  have  that 

Oh,  beloved,  what  a  mighty  power  there  is  in  Open  Speech 

When  that  Bible  used  to  be  chained  to  a  pillar  in  an  old 
dim  cathedral,  it  was  a  power;  but  what  a  difference  since  the 
Word  of  God  has  been  unbound,  and  everybody  has  been  able 
to  read  of  the  wonderful  works  of  God.  Now  Christianity  has 

110  Here^the  Book  which  contains  the  Word  of  God  in  the 
Old  and  in  the  New  Wills.  The  whole  Christian  religion  is 
stated  inside  this  book.  Everybody  can  read  it.  You  can  buy 
a  small  copy  of  it  for  a  few  cents.  \  ou  can  buy  the  New 
Testament,  which  is  the  most  valuable  part  of  it,  for  five  cents. 
I  am  told  that  there  are  Testaments  published  in  England 
which  are  sold  for  one  English  penny,  two  cents  in  American 

“Thave  been  speaking  openly,  and  I  have  won  under  God 
Masonic-Methodists  have  been  speaking  secretly,  and  y 

ha^Beloved  brothers  and  sisters,  whatever  we  may  do,  see  to 
it  that  our  light  shines.  No  man  lighteth  a  candle  and  puttet 
it  under  a  bushel.  He  sets  it  on  a  candlestick  that  it  may 

shine  to  all  who  are  in  the  house.  .  .  ,  •  Hp 

A  great  many  people  say,  “  Oh,  Dr.  Dowie  is  too  plain.  He 
talks  too  openly;  too  freely.”  Those  who  talk  in  that  way  are 
people  who  are  given  to  Secrecy.  Or  they  defend  Masons 


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because  their  relatives  belong  to  that  Order,  or  to  some  other 
Order.  They  do  not  like  plain  talking.  They  do  not  like 
open  talking. 

Does  God  love  us  to  do  things  in  secret? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Does  He  love  us  to  be  affiliated  with  the  infer¬ 
nal  works  of  darkness? 

Audience — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — He  desires  us  to  reprove  them,  and  to  fight  in 
the  light. 

SILENCE  NOT  GOLDEN. 

I  am  told  that  speech  is  silver  and  silence  is  golden.  That 
is  a  lie.  Christ  is  the  Eternal  Word.  His  Words  are  “spirit 
and  life.” 

Speech,  words,  are  the  mightiest  powers  on  earth.  One 
word  has  been  known  again  and  again  to  create  war,  and 
another  word  peace. 

Thirty  years  ago,  in  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  in  1870,  I  had  all 
my  books  and  clothes  packed,  all  my  plans  settled  up.  I 
looked  at  my  boxes  which  had  come  with  me  from  Australia, 
and  said,  “I  am  on  the  wing  again.” 

I  was  going  to  ship  all  that  I  carried  with  me.  I  had  been 
a  student  in  Edinburgh  University,  and  was  going  to  ship  all 
my  things  over  to  Hamburg.  There  I  was  going  to  speak  in 
English  for  about  nine  months  to  an  English-speaking  congre¬ 
gation  in  that  German  City.  I  stipulated  with  my  friends 
while  there  to  preach  in  English,  but  they  were  always  to  talk 
to  me  in  German,  so  that  I  might  learn  the  German  language, 
and  be  able  to  go  to  Berlin  the  following  year  to  study. 

I  had  been  preparing  all  my  course  in  Edinburgh  with  a  view 
to  taking  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  at  Berlin,  and  I 
remember  looking  that  morning  at  my  trunks,  as  I  sat  at 
breakfast,  and  thinking  that  in  two  days  I  should  be  on  the 
Continent. 

I  was  wrong.  I  took  up  my  morning  paper,  and  there  was 
the  story  of  Count  Benedetti  talking  to  King  William  of 
Prussia.  There  has  been  much  contest  as  to  what  he  did 
say.  The  probabilities  are  that  the  King  was  only  too  willing 
to  insult  the  Count  and  to  insult  France.  There  is  scarce  any 
doubt  about  that.  It  was,  no  doubt,  a  part  of  Bismarck’s 
scheme  to  provoke  France.  Bismarck  knew  that  France  was 
not  ready  for  war.  He  knew  better  what  the  conditions  of 
the  French  army  were  than  the  French  Emperor  did. 

Count  Benedetti,  I  read,  had  grossly  insulted  the  King  the 
previous  day.  Count  Benedetti  denied  it,  and  said  that  it  was 
the  King  who  grossly  insulted  him,  and  France  in  his  person. 

It  went  back  to  Paris,  and  the  Duke  de  Gramont  in  the 
Corps  Legislative  arose  and  said,  “We  must  resent  this  insult,” 


150  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

and  the  whole  legislative  body  cried,  “War!  War!  War!” 
Within  twenty-four  hours  war  was  declared.  In  fact,  it  was 
practically  declared  that  night,  and  the  French  troops  were 
marching  at  the  time  I  was  reading  that  paper.  They  were 
marching  on  the  frontier,  and  the  German  troops  had  been 
there  long  ago. 

I  could  not  go  across  to  the  Continent.  The  Continent  was 
closed.  Hamburg  was  closed.  My  friends  wrote  to  me  and 
said,  “Everything  is  closed.  The  Elbe  is  full  of  torpedoes. 
You  cannot  come  in  from  Leith  by  steamer.  You  will  have  to 
go  around  by  Rotterdam.” 

I  saw  that  my  plans  were  all  changed.  It  was  just  in  a 
night  by  one  word  these  nations  were  plunged  into  war. 

That  one  word,  before  the  war  was  over,  had  cost  France 
two  of  her  fairest  provinces,  the  blood  of  tens  of  thousands  of 
her  sons. 

It  cost  her  the  humiliation  of  the  siege  of  Paris.  It  cost 
her  the  humiliation  of  the  Commune.  It  had  cost  her  every¬ 
thing  that  a  nation  can  pay  for  the  price  of  a  foolish  word. 

THE  MIGHTY  POWER  OF  THE  WORD  OF  GOD. 

It  seems  to  me  when  I  hear  people  talking  about  speech 
being  silver  and  silence  golden,  that  they  do  not  know  what 
they  are  saying.  When  God  speaks  all  the  hosts  of  heaven  are 
moved.  If  God  says,  “Let  there  be  light,”  there  is  light. 

The  chaotic  darkness  of  this  world,  at  the  beginning,  was 
illuminated  at  once  by  the  light  which  God  put  around  the 
world  before  the  sunlight  reached  it. 

The  electric  rings  encircled  the  earth  like  those  rings  of 
Saturn  and  made  light  in  a  moment  all  around  this  earth. 

When  a  man  who  knows  how  to  pray,  prays  to  God ;  when  a 
man  who  is  living  in  accordance  with  God’s  commandments 
prays;  when  a  man  wholly  and  perfectly  consecrated  to.  God 
prays,  then  the  words  spoken  are  mightier  than  the  decisions 
of  legislatures,  councils  of  war  or  executive  powers.  And  God 
is  mightier  than  all  beside.  God  encircles  that  man  with 
Light. 

The  day  is  coming  when  the  words  spoken  will  be  a  mighty 
power;  when  a  quiet  word  spoken  in  the  throne-room  of  Zion 
will  reach  in  a  moment  throughout  all  the  earth,  when  the 
King  Himself  speaks  it. 

Here  even  now  in  Zion’s  offices  my  word  goes  a  long  way. 
If  I  go  to  my  office  tonight  and  sit  down  and  write  a  certain 
cablegram,  it  will  be  in  England  in  a  few  minutes.  If  I  write 
a  certain  reply  to  the  cablegram  which  is  in  my  pocket  now,  it 
will  make  a  wonderful  difference.  If  I  utter  a  certain  word  in 
reply  to  this  cablegram,  there  will  be  lathes  turning,  and  men 
working,  and  there  will  be  work  for  a  large  number  of  men  for 


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months  and  months  to  come;  just  by  a  word  sent  in  a  cable¬ 
gram  under  the  Atlantic  Ocean. 

THE  MARVELOUS  EFFECT  OF  THE  WORDS  SENT  OUT  AS  ZION 

LITERATURE. 

The  word  of  a  man  can  go  far.  When  President  McKinley 
speaks  a  certain  word,  it  goes  throughout  the  whole  land. 

These  open  words  which  we  can  speak  for  God,  what  are 
they  not  doing?  Let  me  just  show  you.  Here  is  a  letter  sent 
to  me  tonight: 

Dear  Dr.  Dowie  : — I  herewith  send  you  the  applications  for  member¬ 
ship  in  the  Christian  Catholic  Church  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  K— .  These  persons 
were  converted  through  reading  Zion  Literature.  The  brother  had  become 
an  infidel  through  the  inconsistencies  of  the  teachings  and  evil  practices  of 
the  denominations. 

This  is  signed  by  Elder  S.  A.  Walton,  our  Elder  in  Oak 
Park.  The  applications  which  I  hold  in  my  hand  are  of  a 
brother  and  sister  living  at  Green  Ridge,  Missouri,  whom  I 
presume  are  in  the  city  now. 

One  was  an  infidel,  but  the  word  spoken  from  this  platform 
reached  them  down  in  Green  Ridge,  Missouri,  and  knocked  the 
infidelity  out  of  them. 

What  God  has  done  by  this  word  we  cannot  tell.  We  can 
only  say,  it  is  going  on  and  on,  through  the  word  spoken  by 
the  Voice  to  Zion. 

Everybody  who  hates  the  Silence  of  Secrecy,  and  is  deter¬ 
mined  to  speak  the  plain  Open  Speech  of  Christianity,  and 
follow  Jesus,  stand  to  your  feet.  (With  some  exceptions  the 
entire  audience  arose.) 

All  who  will  keep  on  muttering  secret  words  in  the  dark, 
and  disobey  the  Lord,  sit  still  and  the  Devil  will  know  where 
to  find  you.  All  who  are  determined  to  live  in  the  Light,  and 
walk  in  the  Light,  and  speak  in  the  Light,  I  again  say,  stand. 

God  knows  you  who  are  sitting.  I  would  not  be  in  your 
shoes  for  all  the  gold  of  Ophir.  Pray. 

PRAYER  OF  CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus’  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 
am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be,  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me 
power  to  do  right,  no  matter  what  it  costs.  Give  me  Thy  Holy  Spirit,  that 
I  may  speak,  love,  and  walk  in  the  Light,  in  the  Life,  in  the  Love  of  God. 
Give  me. power  to  rebuke  the  unfruitful  works  of  darkness,  and  to  have  no 
fellowship  with  them,  for  Jesus’  sake.  (All  repeat  the  prayer,  clause  by 
clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

The  meeting  was  then  closed  with  the 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil.  And  may  the  very  God 
of  Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit, 
and  Soul,  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it. 
The  Grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  Love  of  God  the  Father,  the  fellowship 


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of  the  Holy  Ghost,  the  Eternal  Comforter;  one  Eternal  God  abide  in  you, 
bless  you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever. 

Amen. 


NINTH  DISCOURSE. 


THE  crowning  event  of  Zion’s  great  Conflict  with  Methodist 
Apostasy,  especially  in  connection  with  Freemasonry, 
was  the  service  held  in  Central  Zion  Tabernacle  on  Thursday 
evening,  May  24th,  when  two  score  ex-members  of  Secret 
Societies  exemplified  a  portion  of  the  so-called  secret  woik 
of  their  lodges.  By  means  of  this  Exposure,  the  General 
Overseer  clinched  all  the  arguments  which  he  has  made  duiing 
the  eight  previous  Discourses  in  this  Series,  by  showing  the 
utter  unchristian  and  antichristian  nature  of  Freemasonry  and 
the  other  Secret  Orders  which  are,  for  the  most  part,  founded 

upon  it. 

When  he  announced  this  meeting,  the  General  Overseer 
wisely  qualified  his  invitation  to  the  public  to  attend  by  limit¬ 
ing  admission,  before  the  hour  set  for  opening  the  service,  to 
ticket-holders  only.  These  tickets  were,  of  course,  issued  free, 

as  long  as  there  were  any  left. 

As  soon  as  it  became  known,  however,  that  tickets  would 
be  required  for  admission,  there  was  a  rush  for  these  bits  of 
pasteboard,  and  although  4500  of  them  had  been  printed,  they 
were  practically  all  issued  in  one  day,  several  days  before  the 
meeting.  Then  began  a  clamor  for  tickets  from  all  parts  of 
the  city,  and  even  from  neighboring  cities.  He  who  had  two 
gave  one  to  his  neighbor,  so  that  it  is  probable  that  nearly 

every  ticket  printed  was  used. 

In  the  early  twilight  of  that  memorable  Thursday  evening 
twelve  stalwart,  blue-coated  policemen  might  have  been  seen 
gently  but  firmly  restraining  and  forming  into  lines  an  earnest, 
determined  but  good-natured  crowd  on  the  broad  pavement  in 
front  of  Central  Zion  Tabernacle.  So  large  was  this  crowd  that 
the  great  space  in  front  of  the  doors  was  filled  and  the  black 
swarm  of  human  beings  extended  out  to  the  curbing. 

From  the  crowd  a  steady  stream  flowed  into  the  great  audi¬ 
torium  of  the  Tabernacle,  spread  itself  over  the  ground  floor, 
rose  to  the  great  broad  arc  of  the  first  galleries,  filled  them,  and 


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then  mounted  to  the  topmost  tiers  of  seats  in  the  highest 
galleries. 

Still  that  stream  flowed  in.  Nooks  and  corners  were  rapidly 
filled  ;  men  and  women  gathered  in  the  wide  places  in  the  aisles 
and  filled  the  choir  gallery. 

Outside  there  seemed  to  be  no  diminution  of  the  crowd. 
Newcomers  were  constantly  adding  to  it  to  supply  the  places 
of  those  who  entered  the  building,  or,  becoming  weary,  went 
away.  Others,  merely  seeing  the  crowd  outside,  went  away 
without  attempting  to  get  in. 

It  is  estimated  that  10,000  people  thus  either  entered  the 
Tabernacle,  or  came  to  it  with  the  intention  of  entering. 

Those  who  found  places  within  numbered  over  4000. 

The  sight  which  met  their  eyes,  as  they  looked  upon  the  plat¬ 
form,  was  a  strange  one  for  Zion  Tabernacle.  There  sat  twenty- 
six  full-grown  men,  some  of  them  with  the  snows  of  winter  upon 
their  brows,  trying  to  look  solemn  and  dignified,  with  short 
white  bibs,  or  aprons,  tied  across  their  abdomens,  over  the  con¬ 
ventional  black  of  their  ordinary  clothing. 

The  ordeal  was  especially  trying  to  them,  inasmuch  as  they 
had  received  light  by  which  they  saw  the  silliness  of  the  pro¬ 
ceeding.  They  were  imitating  the  follies  from  which  they  had 
been  delivered,  which  millions  of  otherwise  intelligent  men 
still  practice.  These  men  were  arranged  in  the  form  of  a 
Master  Mason’s  Lodge,  with  regulation  lodge  furniture  and 
paraphernalia,  which  will  be  described  later. 

Promptly  at  8  o’clock  the  General  Overseer  came  upon  the 
platform.  The  brief  address  which  he  then  delivered  was  not 
only  a  fitting  prelude  to  the  exposures  which  followed,  but  a 
clear,  logical,  masterly  argument  against  Masonic  administer¬ 
ing  and  making  of  oaths,  vows  and  penalties. 

The  skill  with  which  he  handled  his  subject,  and  the  inspir¬ 
ing  eloquence  with  which  he  outlined  his  position,  won  for  him 
and  for  Zion  the  attention  and  respectful  interest  of  the  vast 
throng  from  the  very  first. 


Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Thursday  Evening,  May  24,  1900. 

As  the  General  Overseer  appeared  upon  the  platform  he 
was  greeted  with  hearty  applause,  whereupon  he  said:  I 
thank  you  for  your  very  kind  welcome. 


1 5  4  ZION '  S  CON  FLIC  T  WITH  ME  THODIS  T  APOSTASY. 

After  announcing  the  hymn,  Number  151,  the  General 
Overseer  commented  upon  the  words,  “We’re  marching 
through  Immanuel’s  ground,”  as  follows: 

The  ground  through  which  we  are  marching  does  not  belong 
to  America,  or  to  Great  Britain,  or  to  Germany,  or  any  other 
political  power. 

The  earth  is  the  Lord’s,  and  the  fulness  thereof; 

The  world,  and  they  that  dwell  therein. 

For  He  hath  founded  it  upon  the  seas, 

And  established  it  upon  the  floods. 

Let  us  feel  that  this  is  God’s  earth.  The  Devil  shall  not  pos¬ 
sess  a  foot  of  it.  It  was  beautiful  when  God  made  it. 

May  God  grant  that  every  inch  of  it  which  has  been 
usurped  by  the  Devil  shall  be  taken  back.  (Amen.) 

We  desire  the  Kingdom  of  God  to  come  on  earth. 

The  Gospel  is  the  Gospel  of  the  Kingdom  of  God. 

SCRIPTURE  READING  AND  EXPOSITION. 

At  the  close  of  the  hymn  Dr.  Dowie  read  from  the  book 
of  Leviticus,  fifth  chapter,  and  commented  upon  the  fourth 
verse  as  follows : 

Or  if  any  one  swear  rashly  with  his  lips  to  do  evil,  or  to  do  good,  what¬ 
soever  it  be  that  a  man  shall  utter  rashly  with  an  oath,  and  it  be  hid  from 
him;  when  he  knoweth  of  it,  then  he  shall  be  guilty  in  one  of  these 
things. 

I  ask  you  to  think  what  these  words  mean.  If  a  man  has 
sworn,  pronouncing  with  his  lips  to  do  evil,  and  the  thing  be 
hid  from  him;  when  he  knoweth  of  it,  he  shall  be  guilty  if  he 
does  not  put  the  thing  away;  if  he  does  not  break  that  bad 
oath. 

If  a  man  has  been  tricked,  or  when  in  a  state  of  sin  has  wil¬ 
fully  taken  a  Bad  Oath,  it  is  his  duty  to  break  it.  He  must 
make  confession  to  God  and  ask  forgiveness  for  having  made 
that  Bad  Oath. 

May  God  help  every  man  here  tonight  who  in  secret  has 
taken  a  Bad  Oath  to  break  it  and  do  right.  (Amen.) 

The  twelfth  chapter  of  the  Gospel  according  to  St.  Luke 
was  then  read  by  the  General  Overseer;  also  from  the  Epistle 
of  Paul  to  the  Ephesians,  fifth  chapter,  commenting  as  follows 
upon  the  eleventh  verse: 

And  have  no  fellowship  with  the  unfruitful  works  of  darkness,  but 
rather  even  reprove  them. 

Now  the  word  “reprove”  is  more  properly  translated  in 
modern  English,  “convict.”  The  old  idea  of  reprove  was  to 
prove  back  again,  just  as  a  boy  who  has  worked  an  example 
proves  it  back  again  into  its  original  proposition. 

So  these  brethren  have  come  here  to  show  you  the  things 
out  of  which  they  have  come,  and  to  reprove  them;  to  prove 
back  again;  to  convict  them. 


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I  know  of  no  better  way  to  convict  the  Masonic-Methodist 
and  other  churches  which  are  full  of  this  dark  Wickedness,  than 
to  let  the  thing  appear  as  it  is.  Tonight  they  shall  be  con¬ 
victed  out  of  their  own  mouths. 

Those  who  are  to  take  part  in  this  Mock  Lodge  tonight  will 
take  part  in  it  as  seriously  as  they  can.  They  will  do  it  just  as 
they  used  to  do  it  in  the  lodges. 

WE  SHALL  CONVICT  MASONRY  BY  SHOWING  ITS  TRUE  CHARACTER. 

Tonight,  if  never  before  in  this  great  city,  there  shall  be 
placed  before  this  vast  audience  the  Truth. 

Brothers,  have  you  not  said  in  the  lodges  what  you  intend 
to  say  tonight? 

Answer— “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Will  it  be  an  exact  representation  of  the  secret 
work? 

Mr.  Ronayne — “An  exact  representation.” 

Dr.  Dowie — There  will  be  nothing  added  and  nothing  taken 
from  it? 

Mr.  Ronayne — “  No,  sir.  It  will  be  according  to  the  Standard 
Work.” 

Dr.  Dowie — We  shall  reprove,  we  shall  convict  Masonry 
tonight.  May  God  send  that  wretched,  accursed  system  back 
to  hell,  from  whence  it  came,  and  let  all  the  Masons  and  the 
people  go  free. 

We  are  going  to  convict  it  tonight  and  prove  that  it  belongs 
to  the  Devil. 

Prayer  was  then  offered  by  Deacon  W.  S.  Peckham. 


THE  CHRISTIAN’S  DUTY  IN  BREAKING  A  BAD 

OATH. 


Dr.  Dowie  then  delivered  the  following  address: 

This  is  the  ninth  meeting  of  a  series  in  which  I  have  been 
dealing,  as  God  has  given  me  grace,  with  Methodist  Apostasy, 
especially  in  its  connection  with  Freemasonry. 

I  am  to  say  a  few  words,  and  they  will  be  very  few,  con¬ 
cerning  the  Christian’s  Duty  in  Breaking  a  Bad  Oath. 

It  is  a  common  statement  by  unthinking  people  that  any 
man  who  would  break  a  vow  can  never  be  believed.  Such  a 
statement  is  most  foolish. 

I  have  known  men  to  register  a  solemn  vow,  when  they 
have  been  disappointed  in  a  young  lady’s  affections:  “I  will 
live  and  die  unmarried.”  They  break  that  vow  (laughter), 
hundreds  of  them. 


156  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

I  have  heard  people  make  vows,  and  even  confirm  them  by 
oaths,  which  they  afterwards  saw  it  was  very  proper  for  them 
to  break. 

The  matter  of  breaking  a  vow  depends  upon  what  that  vow 
is.  If  that  vow  is  a  good  vow,  the  man  is  a  bad  man  who 
breaks  it. 

If  that  vow  is  a  bad  vow,  the  man  is  a  bad  man  who  keeps  it. 

I  ask  this  large  audience  for  one  expression  of  opinion: 
Was  George  Washington  a  good  man? 

Voices — “  Y  es.” 

Dr.  Dowie — I  will  tell  you  something  about  George  Wash¬ 
ington.  He  was  a  British  army  officer.  He  had  drawn  his 
sword  and  sworn  by  the  Ever  Living  God  that  he  would  draw 
that  sword  only  in  defense  of  King  George  III  of  England,  and 
his  successors  upon  the  British  throne ;  that  he  would  draw  that 
sword  to  defend  the  rights  of  Great  Britain  upon  American  soil ; 
that  he  would  never  break  that  vow,  and  that  he  would  hold 
himself  guilty  if  he  ever  broke  it.  It  was  a  long  vow.  I  pub¬ 
lished  it  in  last  week’s  Leaves  of  Healing.  (See  Volume  VII, 
Number  4,  page  106.)  Did  George  Washington  break  that  vow? 

Voices — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — He  broke  that  vow  because  he  found  it  was  a 
bad  vow.  When  he  made  it,  he  made  it  honestly.  He  thought 
it  was  a  good  vow.  He  thought  that  King  George  III  was  a 
good  monarch;  that  Great  Britain  had  a  right  to  rule  over 
America,  and  do  what  she  liked  upon  this  Continent. 

The  day  came  when  he  saw  that  liberty,  life  and  property 
were  all  crushed  beneath  the  feet  of  unbridled  tyranny.  Then 
he  broke  the  sword  and  broke  his  vow,  and  drew  a  sword  in 
behalf  of  the  independence  of  the  United  Colonies,  to  help  to 
make  them  the  great  nation  they  became,  the  United  States  of 
America. 

Did  he  do  right? 

Voices — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie— I  point  out  to  you  that  it  is  a  right  thing  for  a 
man  to  break  a  bad  vow. 

THE  VOWS  MADE  IN  SECRET  LODGES  ARE  BAD  VOWS. 

The  Oaths  which  will  be  shown  you  tonight  are  tricks  and 
lies,  inconsistent  with  common  honesty  and  the  best  interests 
of  this  country. 

Young  men  and  women,  ever  remember  that  the  right  to 
administer  an  oath  is  very  properly  safeguarded  by  the  Con-  * 
stitution  of  the  United  States  of  America. 

All  the  three  great  arms  of  government,  Legislative,  Execu¬ 
tive  and  Judicial,  must  be  united  to  give  a  man  the  power  to 
administer  an  oath. 

The  law  must  be  passed  by  Congress,  and  under  that  law 
the  Executive  may  appoint,  or  the  people  may  elect,  a  magis- 


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trate,  or  a  judge  ;  but  if  that  magistrate  or  judge  is  to  take  office 
and  have  the  power  in  his  turn  to  administer  an  oath,  that  power 
must  be  given  to  him  by  a  judge  who  administers  an  oath  in 
accordance  with  law. 

Is  that  not  a  right  principle? 

Voices — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Who  gives  this  wretched  fellow  here  the  right 
to  administer  an  oath?  (Referring  to  Mr.  Ronayne,  in  his 
capacity  as  Worshipful  Master  of  Red  Dragon  Lodge  Number 
666,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.) 

Mr.  Ronayne — “Nobody.”  (Laughter.) 

Dr.  Dowie — Does  the  law? 

Voices — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Who  gives  him  the  right  to  inflict  a  penalty? 
Does  the  law? 

Voices — “  No.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Apart  from  religion  altogether,  it  is  right  to 
affirm  the  principle  that  no  private  citizen  has  any  right  to 
administer  an  oath,  or  to  inflict  a  penalty. 

I  therefore  claim  that  Secretism  and  the  oaths  they  admin¬ 
ister  and  the  penalties  which  they  assume  to  inflict  are  all  in 
violation  of  civil  law. 

It  is  wicked  and  base  for  any  man  to  assume  the  right  to 
administer  oaths  and  to  inflict  penalties. 

This  gang  of  Freemasons  (referring  to  the  gentlemen  on 
the  platform) — excuse  me.  (Laughter.)  I  am  talking  of  you 
as  you  used  to  be.  This  wretched  gang  of  Freemasons  has  no 
more  right  to  administer  an  oath  than  a  Jesse  James  robber 
gang,  or  any  other  gang. 

Is  that  not  good  logic? 

Voices— “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — By  the  Grace  of  God,  we  are  in  a  very  beautiful 
way  to  smash  up  this  whole  business.  (Amen.)  These  breth¬ 
ren  have  taken  very  kindly  my  assailing  of  them.  Some  of 
them  have  been  out  of  Freemasonry  for  many  years;  one  for 
twenty  years,  and  another  for  more.  But  I  was  the  means  in 
God’s  hands  of  bringing  the  great  majority  of  them  out  of  it. 

j 

IT  TAKES  COURAGE  TO  EXPOSE  THESE  MURDEROUS  ORGANIZA¬ 
TIONS. 

I  am  very  glad  that  they  have  the  courage  of  Zion  men. 

Did  not  George  Washington  risk  his  neck  when  he  drew  his 
sword  in  behalf  of  the  liberties  of' America? 

Voices— “  Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — He  did,  and  if  they  had  caught  him,  they  might 
have  hanged  him  as  a  traitor  to  his  vows. 

The  Masons  have  threatened  that  all  these  men  now  upon 
this  platform  will  be  murdered. 


158  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


I  have  noticed  that  threatened  men  live  long,  because  I  am 
one  of  them.  (Laughter.) 

The  Masons  are  too  great  cowards  to  dare  to  do  anything 
of  the  kind,  for  they  can  see  the  hangman’s  rope  before  their 
eyes.  They  are  a  little  more  careful  than  they  used  to  be  when 
they  murdered  Morgan. 

We  despise  their  threats.  We  have  a  right  to  expose  their 
wicked  secrets,  which  are  antagonistic  to  the  national  interests, 
antagonistic  to  the  home  interests,  and  antagonistic  to  all  the 
interests  of  the  Church  of  God.  We  will  fight  the  Devil,  but 
we  will  not  fight  him  in  the  darkness. 

We  will  fight  him  in  the  light.  We  are  not  afraid.  I  am 
thankful  that  these  men,  twenty-five  of  them,  gather  around  me 
and  are  not  afraid  to  expose  these  secrets  even  at  the  risk  of 
their  lives.  May  God  bless  these  men. 

We  have  no  unkind  feeling  to  the  Masons  or  the  Metho¬ 
dists,  because  it  has  come  to  the  point  that  when  you  say 
Mason,  you  might  almost  say  Methodist,  and  when  you  say 
Methodist,  you  might  almost  say  Mason,  except  in  a  few  very 
great  and  good  cases. 

When  Dr.  Buckley  was  asked  the  question,  he  answered  in 
the  New  York  Christian  Advocate ,  saying  that  Freemasonry 
was  not  in  accordance  with  Christianity,  and  that  those  who 
were  Freemasons  were  suffering  from  an  aberration  of  judg¬ 
ment. 

Aberration  means  a  wandering  away. 

I  present  that  remark  of  Dr.  Buckley’s  and  that  definition 
to  the  members  of  the  Masonic-Methodist  Episcopal  Confer¬ 
ence. 

I  have  no  unkind  feeling.  I  would  God  that  every  man  of 
them  were  out  of  Masonry  and  all  its  kindred  iniquity,  and  that 
they  were  giving  attention  to  the  Salvation  and  the  Healing 
and  the  Holy  Living  of  the  people 

May  God  grant  that  they  be  delivered. 

I  desire  to  say  a  word  or  two  concerning  what  you  are  about 

to  see. 

CONCERNING  THE  EXPOSURE  ABOUT  TO  BE  GIVEN. 

Ex-Worshipful  Master  Ronayne  was  the  Worshipful  Master 
of  Keystone  Lodge  Number  639,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  in  this  City 
of  Chicago.  He  has  initiated  many  who  are  now  high  in  office 
and  have  been  in  the  Grand  Lodge. 

Others  sitting  around  me  are  ex-Masons  of  high  degree. 

Here  is  one  ex-sinner  who  had  thirty-two  degrees.  There 
is  another  who  was  a  Knight  Templar  and  a  Mystic  Shriner.  He 
was  the  dirtiest  dog  of  all  the  lot.  (Laughter).  He  is  not  that 
now,  for  he  is  clean  and  in  Zion,  thank  God. 

Now  these  brethren  are  simply  going  to  attend,  as  it  were,  to 
duty. 


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159 


When  the  General  Overseer  had  finished  his  address,  he 
retired  to  the  officers’ gallery,  from  which  point  he  witnessed 
the  strange  scenes  which  followed  and  controlled  the  great 
audience  with  an  occasional  word  of  warning,  lest  the  ridiculous 
side  of  the  mock  solemnities  should  cause  too  great  laughter 
and  thus  rob  the  exposure  of  the  great  lesson  it  was  intended 
to  teach. 

The  mock  Masonic  lodge  which  now  “opened  for  work” 
was,  owing  to  the  shape  of  the  platform,  compelled  to  call  the 
south  end  of  the  platform  the  east  end  of  the  lodge,  and  the 
other  points  of  the  compass  were  similarly  transposed  to  cor¬ 
respond.  Otherwise  it  was,  in  all  essential  respects,  like  a  reg¬ 
ular  Masonic  lodge. 

In  the  East  sat  the  venerable  Edmond  Ronayne,  ex-Wor- 
shipful  Master  of  Keystone  Lodge  No.  639,  A.  F.  and  A.  M., 
of  Chicago,  a  veteran  in  the  battle  against  Secretism  and  a  true 
friend  of  Zion.  He  was,  on  this  occasion,  Worshipful  Master 
of  Red  Dragon  Lodge  No.  666,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  a  mock  lodge. 

In  the  West  sat  an  ex-thirty-second  degree  Mason,  on  this 
occasion  Senior  Warden  of  Red  Dragon  Lodge. 

In  the  South,  with  his  back  to  the  audience,  as  Junior 
Warden  of  Red  Dragon  Lodge,  sat  an  ex-Mason  of  three 
degrees. 

At  the  right  of  the  Worshipful  Master  sat  an  ex-Knight 
Templar,  who  took  the  arduous  position  of  Senior  Deacon 
and  repeated  its  lengthy  ritual  with  an  ease  which  betokened 
his  familiarity  with  it,  having  officiated  in  the  same  capacity 
many  times  before  in  different  lodges.  Indeed,  all  the  mem¬ 
bers  of  Red  Dragon  Lodge  took  their  parts  so  well  that  a 
Chicago  morning  paper  commented  upon  the  fact,  even  while 
stating  that  the  affair  was  a  “pretended  exposure.” 

At  the  right  of  the  Senior  Warden  was  stationed  the  Junior 
Deacon,  another  ex-Mason. 

Outside  an  improvised  wooden  door  stood  an  ex-Master 
Mason,  who  served  Red  Dragon  Lodge  in  the  capacity  of 
Tyler. 

On  the  right  and  left  of  the  Worshipful  Master,  respectively, 
sat  the  Treasurer  and  Secretary,  both  chairs  being  filled  by 
ex-Masons. 

In  the  center  of  the  platform  stood  a  wooden  “altar,”  about 
three  feet  in  height,  and  at  three  of  its  corners  stood  tall 
candlesticks  bearing  lighted  candles.  Upon  it  lay  a  Masonic 
Ritual,  in  place  of  the  usual  Bible,  and  a  square  and  compasses. 

At  the  right  of  the  Worshipful  Master  and  the  Senior  and 
Junior  Wardens  were  short  pillars,  upon  the  tops  of  which  lay 
gavels  and  other  instruments,  emblematic  of  “the  craft.”  The 
Senior  and  Junior  Deacons  were  armed  with  the  long,  slender 
rods  of  their  office,  surmounted  with  emblems  of  Masonry. 


1 60  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  ME  THODIS  T  A  EOS  TA  S  Y. 

Many  of  the  furnishings  and  instruments  were  purchased 
from  a  regular  Masonic  supply  house  in  Chicago,  and  hence 
were  of  the  regulation  size  and  pattern. 

THE  LODGE  OPENED  WITH  REFERENCES  TO  SUN-WORSHIP. 

Worshipful  Master  Ronayne,  his  head  adorned  with  the 
“plug”  hat  which  is  a  part  of  the  foolery  of  Masonic  custom, 
with  the  assistance  of  the  others,  opened  Red  Dragon  Lodge 
No.  666,  for  work  in  the  Entered  Apprentice  Degree,  with 
prayer  to  some  unnamed  “  Great  Architect  of  the  Universe,” 
the  white-bibbed  “brethren”  responding  to  the  Amen  with  a 
solemn  “So  mote  it  be.” 

In  the  further  opening  exercises  of  the  lodge,  the  real  sun- 
worshiping  nature  of  Masonry  was  revealed  by  the  glib  repeti¬ 
tions  of  the  various  Worshipful  Master  and  Junior  and  Senior 
Wardens  to  the  effect  that  they  held  positions  in  the  East, 
South  and  West,  respectively,  because  the  sun  rose  in  the  East, 
reached  its  meridian  in  the  South  and  set  in  the  West. 

The  Secretary  was  sent  to  the  “preparation  room”  to  col¬ 
lect  a  fee  from  the  candidate  in  waiting,  but,  quickly  returning, 
stated  that  inasmuch  as  the  candidate  was  a  clergyman,  the  fee 
was  remitted. 

After  more  solemn  clap-trap,  there  were  three  loud  raps  at 
the  wooden  door. 

The  Senior  Deacon  arose  and  announced  that  there  was  an 
alarm  at  the  door. 

Being  instructed  by  the  Worshipful  Master  to  attend  the 
alarm,  he  went  to  the  door  and  gave  three  raps.  The  door  was 
then  opened  and  the  following  conversation  took  place: 

METHODIST  BISHOP  “A  POOR,  BLIND  CANDIDATE.” 

Senior  Deacon — “Who  comes  here?” 

Junior  Deacon  (who  was  with  the  candidate) — “The  Right-Reverend 
Charles  H.  Birdhunter,  D.  D.,  Bishop  in  the  Masonic-Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  who  has  long  been  in  darkness,  and  now  seeks  to  be  brought  to 
light,  and  to  receive  a  part  in  the  rights  and  benefits  of  this  Worshipful 
Lodge  erected  to  God  and  dedicated  to  the  Saints  John,  as  all  brothers  and 
fellows  have  done  before.” 

Senior  Deacon — “  Bishop  Birdhunter,  is  this  of  your  own  free  will  and 
accord?” 

Bishop  Birdhunter — “  It  is.” 

Senior  Deacon — “Brother  Junior  Deacon,  is  the  candidate  worthy  and 
well  qualified !” 

Junior  Deacon — “He  is.” 

Senior  Deacon — “Is  he  duly  and  truly  prepared?” 

Junior  Deacon — “He  is.” 

Senior  Deacon— “Is  he  of  lawful  age,  and  properly  vouched  for?” 

Junior  Deacon — “He  is.” 

Senior  Deacon — “Who  vouches  for  this?” 

Junior  Deacon— “A  brother.” 

Senior  Deacon — “  By  what  further  rights  and  benefits  does  he  expect  to 
gain  admission?” 


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Junior  Deacon —  By  being  a  man,  free  born,  of  good  report,  and  well 
recommended.” 

Senior  Deacon — “It  is  well.  Bishop  Birdhunter,  you  will  wait  with 
patience  until  the  Worshioful  Master  is  informed  of  your  request,  and  his 
answer  returned.” 

The  door  was  then  closed;  the  Senior  Deacon  returned  to 
the  altar,  gave  one  rap  on  the  floor  with  his  rod,  made  the  due 
guard  of  an  Entered  Apprentice,  and  reported: 

Senior  Deacon — “  Worshipful  Master,  the  alarm  is  caused  by  Right- 
Reverend  Charles  H.  Birdhunter,  D.  D.,  a  Bishop  in  the  Masonic-Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  who  has  long  been  in  darkness,  and  now  seeks  to  be 
brought  to  light  and  to  receive  a  part  in  the  rights  and  benefits  of  this  Wor¬ 
shipful  Lodge,  erected  to  God  and  dedicated  to  the  Saints  John,  as  all 
brothers  and  fellows  have  done  before.” 

Worshipful  Master — “  Brother  Senior  Deacon,  is  this  of  his  own  free 
will  and  accord?” 

Senior  Deacon — “  It  is.” 

Worshipful  Master — “Is  the  candidate  worthy  and  well  qualified,  duly 
and  truly  prepared?” 

Senior  Deacon — “He  is.” 

Worshipful  Master — “Is  he  of  lawful  age,  and  properly  vouched  for?” 

Senior  Deacon — “He  is.” 

Worshipful  Master — “Who  vouches  for  this?” 

Senior  Deacon — “A  brother.” 

Worshipful  Master — “  By  what  further  rights  and  benefits  does  he 
expect  to  gain  admission?” 

Senior  Deacon — “  By  being  a  man,  free  born,  of  good  report,  and  well 
recommended.” 

Worshipful  Master — “  It  is  well.  Since  he  comes  endowed  with  all  these 
necessary  qualifications,  it  is  my  order  that  he  enter  this  lodge  in  the  Name 
of  the  Lord,  and  be  received  in  due  form.” 

METHODIST  BISHOP  STANDS  NEARLY  NAKED  IN  THE  LODGE  ROOM. 

The  door  was  then  thrown  open  and  Elder  H.  D.  Brasefield, 
“made  up”  to  represent  “Bishop  Birdhunter,”  was  conducted 
into  the  lodge  by  the  Junior  Deacon. 

As  he  stepped  out  into  the  light  of  the  lodge-room,  there 
was  a  murmur  of  mingled  horror  and  disgust  at  the  diabolical 
system  which  he  was  aiding  to  expose,  and  sympathy  with  him 
that  he  was  obliged  to  undergo  such  indignities  in  order  to 
expose  it. 

He  was  stripped  to  his  undervest  and  a  pair  of  light 
trousers.  The  sleeve  on  his  left  arm  was  rolled  to  his  shoulder, 
his  left  breast  was  bare,  his  left  foot  was  bare,  and  the  left  leg 
of  his  trousers  was  rolled  up  above  the  knee.  Over  his  eyes 
was  tied  a  hoodwink  and  around  his  neck  was  tied  a  blue  rope, 
called  a  cable-tow. 

There  he  stood,  an  impersonation  of  a  Methodist  Bishop,  a 
living  rebuke,  in  the  eyes  of  thousands,  to  a  million  American 
citizens,  many  of  them  professed  followers  of  Christ,  some  of 
them  claiming  to  be  His  ministers,  who  have  thus  degraded 
their  manhood. 

The  ritual  of  these  mock  Baal-worshipers  then  went  on. 


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The  Senior  Deacon  received  the  candidate  on  the  point  of 
compasses,  pressed  to  his  naked  left  breast,  and  addressed  him 
as  follows: 

Senior  Deacon— “  Bishop  Birdhunter,  on  your  first  admission  into  a 
Lodge  of  Masons,  I  receive  you  on  the  point  of  a  sharp  instrument  press¬ 
ing  your  naked  left  breast  (here  he  pressed  the  point  of  the  compasses  against 
the  left  breast  of  the  candidate),  which  is  to  teach  you  that,  as  this  is  an 
instrument  of  torture  to  your  flesh,  so  should  the  recollection  of  it  be  to  your 
conscience,  should  you  ever  presume  to  reveal  any  of  the  secrets  of  Free¬ 
masonry  unlawfully.” 

The  Senior  Deacon  then  passed  the  compasses  to  the  Stew¬ 
ard  and  taking  the  candidate  by  the  right  arm,  conducted  him 
a  little  further  inward,  and  towards  the  center  of  the  lodge, 
where  he  was  halted.  The  Junior  Deacon,  in  the  meantime, 
retired  to  his  proper  place,  and  the  Stewards  marched  behind 
the  candidate.  The  Senior  Deacon  then  addressed  the  latter 
as  follows: 

Bishop  Birdhunter,  as  no  man  should  ever  enter  upon  any  great  or 
important  undertaking  without  first  imploring  the  blessing  of  Deity,  you 
will  therefore  kneel  where  you  now  stand,  and  attend  prayer.” 

METHODIST  BISHOP  KNEELS  WHILE  A  HEATHEN  PRAYER  IS  SAID. 

Then  the  candidate,  representing  a  minister  and  a  Bishop 
in  a  so-called  Church  of  Christ,  knelt  as  if  in  prayer,  and  the 
members  of  the  lodge  arose,  while  the  Worshipful  Master 
addressed  an  alleged  prayer  to  the  “Almighty  Father  of  the 
Universe.”  This  heathen  prayer  was  not  offered  in  the  Name 
of  Jesus,  as  Jesus  directed  His  disciples  to  pray  after  His 
ascension. 

The  Worshipful  Master  then  replaced  his  hat,  which  he  had 
removed,  and  approaching  the  candidate  said: 

vVorshipful  Master— “  Bishop  Birdhunter,  in  whom  do  you  put  your 
trust?” 

Candidate — “  In  God.” 

Worshipful  Master — “Give  me  your  right  hand.  Your  trust  being  in 
God,  your  faith  is  well  founded.  Arise!  follow  your  conductor,  and  fear  no 
danger.”  (Helps  the  candidate  to  his  feet.) 

The  Master  then  retired  to  his  seat  in  the  East,  gave  one  rap, 
and  the  members  of  the  lodge  took  their  seats. 

The  Senior  Deacon  then  took  the  “Bishop”  by  the  arm 
and  conducted  him  slowly  around  the  lodge-room.  As  they 
passed  the  Master  and  Wardens,  these  officers  each  gave  one 
loud  rap  with  his  gavel. 

Finally  they  stopped  before  the  Junior  Warden  and  the 
Senior  Deacon  gave  one  loud  rap  on  the  floor  with  his  rod. 
The  Junior  Warden  arose  to  his  feet  and  “examined”  the 
“Bishop”  with  the  same  questions  which  were  propounded  to 
him  when  he  knocked  at  the  door  of  the  lodge.  He  then 
directed  the  Senior  Deacon  to  take  him  to  the  Senior  Warden 


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for  further  “examination.”  The  Senior  Warden,  having  simi¬ 
larly  examined  the  candidate,  passed  him  on  to  the  Worshipful 
Master,  who  concluded  the  examination,  and  then  said: 

METHODIST  BISHOP  TAUGHT  HOW  TO  APPROACH  THE  ALTAR  OF 

BAAL. 

Worshipful  Master— “  It  is  well.  Since  he  comes  endowed  with  all 
these  necessary  qualifications,  it  is  my  order  that  you  reconduct  the  Bishop 
to  the  Senior  Warden  in  the  West,  who  will  teach  him  to  approach  the  East 
by  one  upright,  regular  step,  his  feet  forming  the  angle  of  an  oblong  square, 
his  body  erect,  at  the  altar,  before  the  Worshipful  Master.” 

The  candidate  was  reconducted  to  the  Senior  Warden,  and 
halted,  about  five  feet  from  that  officer’s  station,  where  the 
following  ceremony  occurred : 

Senior  Deacon — “Brother  Senior  Warden,  it  is  the  order  of  the  Wor¬ 
shipful  Master  that  you  teach  the  Bishop  to  approach  the  East  by  one 
upright,  regular  step,  his  feet  forming  the  angle  of  an  oblong  square,  his 
body  erect,  at  the  altar,  before  the  Worshipful  Master.” 

Senior  Warden— “  Brother  Senior  Deacon,  you  will  face  the  candidate 
to  the  East.  (The  candidate  was  faced  about.)  Bishop  Birdhunter,  you 
will  now  take  one  step  with  your  left  foot,  bringing  the  heel  of  the  right  to 
the  hollow  of  the  left,  forming  the  angle  of  an  oblong  square.  (The  Senior 
Deacon  placed  his  feet  as  required.)  Stand  erect.— In  order,  Worshipful.” 

The  Master  then  arose  to  his  feet,  and  addressed  the  can¬ 
didate  with  the  following  lie: 

Worshipful  Master— “  Bishop  Birdhunter,  you  are  now  standing  before 
the  altar  of  Masonry  for  the  first  time;  but  before  proceeding  further  it 
becomes  my  duty,  as  Master  of  this  lodge,  to  inform  you  that  it  will  be 
necessary  that  you  take  upon  yourself  a  solemn  oath  or  obligation  pertain¬ 
ing  to  this  degree.  But  I  can  assure  you,  upon  the  honor  of  a  man  and  a 
Mason,  that  in  this  obligation  there  is  nothing  that  will  conflict  with  any 
duty  you  owe  to  God,  your  country,  your  neighbor,  your  family,  or  yourself, 
In  your  advancement  thus  far,  you  have  repeatedly  assured  us,  it  was  of  your 
own  free  will  and  accord.  If  you  are  still  of  the  same  mind,  you  will 
advance  to  our  altar.  (He  was  led  to  the  altar  by  the  guide,  the  Senior  Dea¬ 
con.)  Kneel  on  your  naked  left  knee,  your  right  (knee)  forming  a  square, 
your  left  hand  supporting  the  Holy  Bible,  Square  and  Compasses,  your 
right  resting  thereon  (the  Senior  Deacon  placed  the  candidate  in  these 
different  positions),  in  which  due  form  you  will  say  ‘  I  * — repeat  your  name 
in  full — and  say  after  me.” 

Kneeling  thus,  half-naked,  at  the  altar  of  Baal,  “Bishop 
Birdhunter”  repeated  after  the  Worshipful  Master  the  words 
of  the  following  horrible  oath: 

METHODIST  BISHOP  TAKES  AN  ILLEGAL  OATH. 

“  I,  Bishop  Birdhunter,  of  my  own  free  will  and  accord,  in  the  presence 
of  Almighty  God  and  this  Worshipful  Lodge,  erected  to  him  and  dedicated 
to  the  Holy  Saints  John,  do  hereby  and  hereon  (here  the  Master  placed  his 
right  hand  on  that  of  the  candidate)  most  solemnly  and  sincerely  promise 
and  swear,  that  I  will  always  hail,  ever  conceal  and  never  reveal  any  of  the 
secret  arts,  parts  or  points  of  the  hidden  mysteries  of  Ancient  Freemasonry, 
which  have  been  heretofore,  may  at  this  time,  or  shall  at  any  future  period, 
be  communicated  to  me  as  such,  to  any  person  or  persons  whomsoever, 
except  it  be  to  a  true  and  lawful  brother  Mason,  orwithin  a  regularly  con¬ 
stituted  Lodge  of  Masons,  and  neither  unto  him  nor  them,  until  by  strict 


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trial,  due  examination,  or  legal  information,  I  shall  have  found  him  or  them 
as  lawfully  entitled  to  the  same  as  I  am  myself.  .  . 

« I  furthermore  promise  and  swear  that  I  will  not  write,  print,  paint, 
stamp,  stain,  cut,  carve,  mark  nor  engrave  them,  or  cause  the.  same  to  be 
done  upon  anything  movable  or  immovable,  capable  of  receiving  the  least 
impression  of  a  word,  syllable,  letter  or  character,  whereby  the  same  may 
become  legible  or  intelligible  to  any  person  under  the  canopy  of  heaven, 
and  the  secrets  of  Freemasonry  thereby  be  unlawfully  obtained  through  my 

unworthiness.  ,  .  , 

“To  all  this  I  most  solemnly  and  sincerely  promise  and  swear,  with 

a  firm  and  steadfast  resolution,  to  keep  and  perform  the  same,  without  any 
equivocation,  mental  reservation  or  secret  evasion  of  mind  whatever,  bind¬ 
ing  myself  under  a  no  less  penalty  than  that  of  having  my  throat  cut  across, 
mv  tongue  torn  out  by  its  roots  and  buried  in  the  rough  sands  of  the  sea  at 
low  water  mark,  where  the  tide  ebbs  and  flows. twice  in  twenty-four  hours, 
should  I  ever  knowingly  or  wilfully  violate  this  my  solemn  oath  or  obliga¬ 
tion  as  an  Entered  Apprentice  Mason.  So  help  me  God,  and  keep  me 

steadfast  in  the  due  performance  of  the  same. 

“  Bishop  Birdhunter,  in  token  of  your  sincerity,  you  will  detach  your 

hands  and  kiss  the  Bible.” 

The  Deacon  removed  the  candidate’s  hands  from  the  book 
and  he  kissed  it. 

Worshipful  Master—"  Brother  Senior  Deacon,  you  will  now  release  the 
brother  from  the  cable-tow,  as  he  is  bound  to  us  by  an  obligation,  a  tie 
stronger  than  human  hands  can  impose. 

The  Senior  Deacon  removed  the  rope  from  around  the  can¬ 
didate’s  neck  and  threw  it  aside.  The  Master  resumed  his  hat, 
stepped  back  a  few  paces,  and  asked  the  candidate . 

BLASPHEMOUS  TRAVESTY  ON  GOD’S  WORD. 

Worshipful  Master— “  Bishop  Birdhunter,  in  your  present  condition, 

what  do  you  most  desire?”  „ 

Candidate  (prompted  by  Senior  Deacon)  “  Light. 

Worshipful  Master— “  Brother  Senior  Deacon  and  brethren,  you  will 
assist  me  in  bringing  the  brother  from  darkness  to  light.” 

Then  followed  a  blasphemous  ceremony  in  which  the  Wor¬ 
shipful  Master  spoke  the  words  of  God,  “  Let^  there  be 
Light,”  and  the  hoodwink  was  removed  from  the  “Bishops 

eyCThe  Worshipful  Master  then  explained  that  the  Bible, 
Square  and  Compasses  were  the  “  three  great  lights  in  Masonry,” 
and  that  the  three  candles,  the  three  lesser  lights,  represented 
the  sun,  the  moon,  and  the  Master  of  the  lodge,  thus  again 
making  veiled  allusion  to  the  real  religion  of  Freemasonry: 
sun-worship. 

The  Worshipful  Master  then  taught  the  candidate  the  step, 
due  guard  and  sign  of  an  Entered  Apprentice. 

The  Entered  Apprentice  grip  and  word  were  then  given  the 
candidate,  with  much  solemn  mummery,  the  word  being 

Boaz.  .  ,  o 

The  candidate  was  then  led  to  the. Junior  and  Senior  War¬ 
dens,  respectively,  whom  he  saluted  with  the  Entered  Appren¬ 
tice  “due  guard  and  sign.” 


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These  officers,  in  answer  to  the  Worshipful  Master’s 
questions,  reported  that  these  signs  were  correctly  made,  and 
the  Worshipful  Master  then  said: 

METHODIST  BISHOP  GIVEN  A  MASONIC  APRON  AS  A  BADGE  OF 

INNOCENCE. 

Worshipful  Master — “  Bishop  Birdhunter,  I  have  now  the  pleasure  of  pre¬ 
senting  you  with  a  lambskin,  or  white  leather  apron.  It  is  the  emblem  of  inno¬ 
cence  and  the  badge  of  a  Mason.  It  is  more  ancient  than  the  Golden  Fleece 
or  Roman  Eagle,  more  honorable  than  the  Star  and  Garter,  or  any  other 
order  that  could  be  conferred  upon  you  at  this,  or  any  future  period,  by 
king,  prince,  potentate  or  any  other  person,  except  he  be  a  Mason;  and  it 
is  to  be  hoped  you  will  ever  wear  it  with  equal  pleasure  to  yourself  and 
honor  to  the  fraternity.  You  will  carry  it  to  the  Senior  Warden  in  the  West, 
who  will  teach  you  how  to  wear  it  as  an  Entered  Apprentice  Mason.” 

The  Senior  Deacon  then  conducted  the  candidate  to  the 
Senior  Warden,  and  after  giving  one  rap  with  his  rod,  said: 

Senior  Deacon — “  Brother  Senior  Warden,  it  is  the  order  of  the  Worship¬ 
ful  Master  that  you  teach  the  Bishop  how  to  wear  his  apron  as  an  Entered 
Apprentice  Mason.” 

The  Senior  Warden  then  took  the  apron  from  the  Bishop 
and  went  through  the  foolery  of  “teaching  him  how  to  wear 
his  apron,”  that  is,  with  the  bib  turned  up. 

This  done,  “  Bishop  Birdhunter”  was  again  brought  before 
the  Worshipful  Master  and  asked  to  contribute  “something  of 
a  metallic  kind.”  As  everything  metallic  had  been  removed  in 
the  preparation  room,  he  was,  of  course,  unable  to  comply. 
The  Worshipful  Master  then  said: 

Worshipful  Master — “  Bishop  Birdhunter,  you  are  helpless  indeed.  But, 
this  has  not  been  done  to  trifle  with  your  feelings,  but  to  teach  you  that 
should  you  ever  meet  a  friend,  and  more  especially  a  brother  Mason,  in  like 
destitute  circumstances,  you  will  cheerfully  contribute  to  his  relief,  so  far  as 
his  necessities  may  require  and  your  ability  permit,  without  material  injury 
to  yourself.  You  will  now  be  reconducted  to  the  place  from  whence  you 
came,  and  be  there  invested  with  what  you  have  been  divested  of,  and 
return  to  the  lodge  for  further  instruction.” 

The  “Bishop”  was  accordingly  conducted  to  the  prepara¬ 
tion  room. 

The  second  and  third  sections  of  the  Entered  Apprentice 
and  all  of  the  Fellow  Craft  degrees  were  omitted  by  the  Red 
Dragon  Lodge,  and  the  brethren  proceeded  at  once  to  the 
work  of  the  Master’s  degree. 

The  lodge  was  opened  and  the  preliminary  work  carried  out 
in  somewhat  the  same  manner,  as  in  the  Entered  Apprentice 
degree,  the  details  of  the  ritual  being  slightly  different. 

Then  there  was  an  alarm  at  the  door,  which  the  Senior 
Deacon  attended,  and  the  following  dialogue  took  place: 

METHODIST  BISHOP  DESIRES  FURTHER  “LIGHT”  IN  MASONRY. 

Senior  Deacon — “Who  comes  here?” 

Junior  Deacon — “The  Right-Reverend  Brother  Charles  H.  Birdhunter, 
D.  I).,  Bishop  in  the  Masonic-Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  who  has  been 
regularly  initiated  as  an  Entered  Apprentice,  passed  to  the  degree  of 


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Fellow  Craft,  and  now  seeks  further  light  in  Masonry  by  being  raised  to 

the  sublime  degree  of  Master  Mason.”  ,,  . 

Senior  Deacon  (looking  at  candidate) — “  Brother  Bishop  Birdhunter,  is 

this  of  your  own  free  will  and  accord?” 

Candidate — “  It  is.”  .  ...  A 

Senior  Deacon— “  Brother  Junior  Deacon,  is  the  candidate  worthy  and 

well  qualified?” 

Junior  Deacon — “  He  is.” 

Senior  Deacon— “Is  he  duly  and  truly  prepared? 

Junior  Deacon— “  He  is.” 

Senior  Deacon— “  Has  he  made  a  suitable  proficiency  in  the  preceding 
degrees  ?” 

Junior  Deacon — “  He  has.” 

Senior  Deacon— “  Who  vouches  for  this?” 

Junior  Deacon — “  A  brother.” 

Senior  Deacon— “By  what  further  right  or  benefit  does  he  expect  to 
gain  admission?” 

Junior  Deacon — “By  the  benefit  of  the  pass. 

Senior  Deacon — “  Has  he  the  pass?” 

Junior  Deacon— “  He  has  it  not,  but  I  have  it  for  him. 

Senior  Deacon— “  Give  me  the  pass.” 


The  pass,  “  Tubal-Cain,”  was  given,  the  Senior  Deacon  made 
his  report  as  before,  and  at  the  order  of  the  Worshipful  Master 
the  candidate  entered  the  lodge. 


METHODIST  BISHOP  FURTHER  HUMILIATED  BY  NAKEDNESS. 

This  time  he  appeared  in  an  even  more  shameful  condition 
than  before,  having  his  breasts,  arms  and  legs  entirely  naked. 
Had  he  appeared  as  prescribed  by  the  Masonic  Ritual,  with  the 
cable-tow  three  times  around  his  naked  body,  his  knees  and 
feet  bare,  it  would  have  been  too  shameful  for  an  audience  to 
witness. 

The  two  points  of  the  compasses  were  pressed  to  his  two 
naked  breasts  and  a  mass  of  hypocritical  cant  concerning 
Friendship,  Morality  and  Brotherly  Love  was  repeated  to  him. 

He  was  then  led  around  the  lodge  three  times  by  the  Senior 
Deacon,  the  Junior  and  Senior  Wardens  and  Worshipful  Master 
giving  each  one  rap  as  he  passed  on  the  first  circuit,  two  on 

the  second  and  three  on  the  third. 

He  was  then  “  examined  ”  by  the  Junior  and  Senior  Wardens 
and  the  Worshipful  Master,  with  the  same  questions  as  at  the 
door. 

He  was  then  taught  by  the  Senior  Warden,  “how  to 
approach  the  East  by  three  upright,  regular  steps,  his  feet 
forming  the  angle  of  a  square,  his  body  erect,  before  the  Wor¬ 
shipful  Master  in  the  East.” 

The  Worshipful  Master  then  told  him  the  following  dia¬ 
bolical  lie : 

Worshipful  Master  (addressing  candidate)— “Bishop  Birdhunter,  you  are 
now  at  the  altar  of  Masonry  for  the  third  time ;  but  before  proceeding 
further,  it  becomes  my  duty,  as  Master  of  this  lodge,  to  inform  you  that  it 
will  be  necessary  that  you  take  upon  yourself  a  solemn  oath  or  obligation 
pertaining  to  this  degree.  It  is  one  similar  in  character  to  those  which  you 


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have  taken  in  the  preceding  degrees;  but  I  assure  you,  upon  the  honor  of  a 
man  and  a  Mason,  that  in  this  obligation  there  is  nothing  that  will  con¬ 
flict  with  any  duty  you  owe  to  God,  your  country,  your  neighbor,  your 
family,  or  yourself.  In  your  advancement  thus  far  you  have  repeatedly 
assured  us  it  was  of  your  own  free  will  and  accord;  if  you  are  still  of  the 
same  mind,  you  will  advance  to  the  altar.  Kneel  on  your  naked  knees, 
both  hands  resting  on  the  Holy  Bible,  Square  and  Compasses.” 

THE  WICKED  OATH  OF  A  MASTER  MASON. 

When  the  “Bishop”  had  thus  again  knelt  before  the  Wor¬ 
shipful  Master,  at  the  altar  of  Baal,  he  was  directed  to  repeat 
the  following  wicked,  illegal  and  unchristian  oath,  with  its 
horrible  penalty: 

“  I,  Charles  H.  Birdhunter,  of  my  own  free  will  and  accord,  in  the  pres¬ 
ence  of  Almighty  God  and  this  Worshipful  Lodge,  erected  to  him  and 
dedicated  to  the  Holy  Saints  John,  do  hereby  and  hereon  (the  Master  at 
these  words  places  his  right  hand  upon  those  of  the  candidate)  most 
solemnly  and  sincerely  promise  and  swear: 

“That  I  will  always  hail,  ever  conceal  and  never  reveal  any  of  the 
secret  arts,  parts  or  points  of  the  Master  Mason’s  degree  to  any  person  or 
persons  whomsoever,  except  it  be  to  a  true  and  lawful  brother  Master 
Mason,  or  within  a  regularly  constituted  lodge  of  Master  Masons,  and 
neither  unto  him  nor  them  until,  by  strict  trial,  due  examination  or  legal 
information,  I  shall  have  found  him  or  them  as  lawfully  entitled  to  the  same 
as  I  am  myself. 

“  I  furthermore  promise  and  swear,  that  I  will  conform  to,  and  abide  by, 
all  the  laws,  rules  and  regulations  of  the  Master  Mason’s  degree,  and  of  the 
lodge  of  which  I  shall  hereafter  become  a  member,  and  that  I  will  ever 
maintain  and  support  the  constitution,  laws  and  edicts  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
under  which  the  same  shall  be  holden,  so  far  as  the  same  shall  come  to  my 
knowledge. 

“Furthermore,  that  I  will  answer  and  obey  all  due  signs  and  sum¬ 
monses  sent  to  me  from  a  lodge  of  Master  Masons,  or  given  to  me  by  a 
brother  of  this  degree,  if  within  the  length  of  my  cable-tow. 

“Furthermore,  that  I  will  keep  the  secrets  of  a  worthy  brother  Master 
Mason  as  inviolable  as  my  own,  when  communicated  to  and  received  by  me 
as  such,  murder  and  treason  excepted. 

“Furthermore,  that  I  will  aid  and  assist  all  worthy  distressed  brother 
Master  Masons,  their  widows  and  orphans,  so  far  as  their  necessities  may 
require  and  my  ability  permit  without  material  injury  to  myself. 

“Furthermore,  that  I  will  not  sit  in  a  lodge  of  clandestine  Masons,  nor 
converse  upon  the  secrets  of  Freemasonry  with  a  clandestine  Mason,  nor 
with  one  who  is  under  the  sentence  of  suspension  or  expulsion,  to  my 
knowledge,  while  under  such  sentence. 

“Furthermore,  that  I  will  not  assist  in,  or  be  present  at,  the  initiating, 
passing  or  raising  of  a  woman,  an  old  man  in  his  dotage,  a  young  man 
under  age,  an  atheist,  a  madman,  nor  a  fool. 

“  Furthermore,  that  I  will  not  cheat,  wrong  or  defraud  a  lodge  of  Master 
Masons,  nor  a  brother  of  this  degree,  nor  supplant  him  in  any  of  his  laud¬ 
able  undertakings,  but  will  give  him  due  and  timely  notice,  that  he  may 
ward  off  approaching  danger. 

“  Furthermore,  that  I  will  not  knowingly  strike  a  brother  Master  Mason, 
nor  otherwise  do  him  personal  violence  in  anger,  except  it  be  in  the  neces¬ 
sary  defense  of  my  person,  family  or  property. 

“Furthermore,  that  I  will  not  have  illicit  carnal  intercourse  with  a 
Master  Mason’s  wife,  mother,  sister  or  daughter,  I  knowing  them  to  be  such, 
nor  suffer  it  to  be  done  by  others,  if  in  my  power  to  prevent  it. 

“  Furthermore,  that  I  will  not  give  the  Grand  Hailing  Sign  or  Sign  of 
Distress  of  a  Master  Mason  except  in  real  distress,  in  cases  of  the  most 


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imminent  danger,  within  a  regularly  constituted  lodge  of  Master  Masons, 
or  in  a  secure  place  for  Masonic  instruction;  and  should  I  see  the  sign 
given  or  hear  the  words  accompanying  it,  I  will  immediately  repair  to  the 
relief  of  the  person  so  giving  it,  should  there  be  a  greater  probability  of 
saving  his  life  than  of  losing  my  own. 

«  Furthermore,  that  I  will  not  give  the  Grand  Masonic  word  in  any  other 
manner  or  form  than  that  in  which  I  shall  hereafter  receive  it,  and  then  only 
in  low  breath. 

«  To  all  of  this  I  most  solemnly  and  sincerely  promise  and  swear  with  a 
firm  and  steadfast  resolution  to  keep  and  perform  the  same  without  any 
equivocation,  mental  reservation,  or  secret  evasion  of  mind  whatever,  bind¬ 
ing  myself  under  no  less  a  penalty  than  that  of  having  my  body  severed  in 
twain,  my  bowels  taken  from  thence  and  burned  to  ashes,  and  the  ashes 
scattered  to  the  four  winds  of  heaven,  that  no  more  trace  or  remembrance 
may  be  had  of  so  vile  and  perjured  a  wretch  as  I,  should  I  ever  knowingly 
or  wilfully  violate  this  my  solemn  obligation  as  a  Master  Mason.  So  help 
me  God,  and  keep  me  steadfast  in  the  due  performance  of  the  same.” 

The  “Bishop”  then  kissed  the  book  and  the  cable-tow  was 
removed. 

The  Worshipful  Master  stepped  back  and  the  rods  of  the 
Senior  and  Junior  Deacons  were  crossed  over  his  head.  He 
then  repeated  again  the  words,  “  Let  there  be  Light,”  and  the 
hoodwink  was  removed. 

The  Worshipful  Master  then  illustrated  to  the  “  Bishop  ” 
the  Master’s  step,  due  guard  and  sign,  grip  and  word,  Tubal- 
Cain. 

Then  the  candidate  made  these  various  signs  before  the 
Junior  and  Senior  Wardens,  and  was  afterward  “taught  how  to 
wear  his  apron  as  a  Master  Mason,”  by  the  Senior  Warden. 

The  brief  lecture  on  the  working  tools  of  a  Master  Mason 
was  omitted,  and  after  saluting  before  the  altar,  the  “Bishop  ” 
was  allowed  to  retire  to  the  preparation  room  and  resume  his 
clothes. 

When  he  had  again  entered  the  lodge  the  Junior  Warden’s 
jewel,  a  small  plumb,  was  hung  about  his  neck  by  a  blue  ribbon 
and  he  took  his  seat  among  the  “brethren.” 

The  usual  closing  ceremonies  of  a  Master’s  Lodge  were  then 
performed  up  to  the  moment  of  closing,  when  the  Worshipful 
Master  said : 

THE  BEGINNING  OF  THE  “SECOND  SECTION”  OF  THE  MASTER’S 

DEGREE. 

“By  the  way,  is  the  Right  Reverend  Brother  Charles  H.  Birdhunter, 
D.  D.,  Bishop  in  the  Masonic-Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  present?” 

Bishop  Birdhunter — “Here.” 

Worshipful  Master — “Bishop  Birdhunter,  you  will  please  approach  the 
East.” 

The  candidate  approached  the  East  and  stood  in  front  of  the 
Master’s  chair. 

Worshipful  Master — “Bishop  Birdhunter,  you  now  no  doubt  consider 
yourself  a  Master  Mason,  and  as  such  entitled  to  all  the  rights  and  privileges 
of  a  Master  Mason?” 

Bishop  Birdhunter — “Yes,  sir.” 


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Worshipful  Master — “I  presume  you  do,  from  the  jewel  you  wear 
(alluding  to  the  small  plumb  hanging  from  his  neck).  But,  my  brother,  it 
becomes  my  duty  to  inform  you  that  you  are  not  yet  a  Master  Mason,  and 
it  is  doubtful  whether  you  ever  will  be.  You  have  yet  a  rough  and  rugged 
road  to  travel,  beset  with  ruffians  and  it  may  be  with  murderers,  and  should 
you  lose  your  life  in  the  conflict  yours  will  not  be  the  first.  But  remember 
in  whom  you  put  your  trust,  ‘he  that  endureth  to  the  end  shall  be  saved.’ 
On  a  former  occasion  you  had  some  one  to  pray  for  you,  but  now  you  must 
pray  for  yourself.  You  will  therefore  suffer  yourself  again  to  be  hood¬ 
winked;  kneel  where  you  now  stand,  and  pray,  either  mentally  or  orally 
as  you  choose;  when  done,  say  ‘Amen ’aloud;  arise  and  make  your  prog¬ 
ress.” 

The  Senior  Deacon  adjusted  the  hoodwink  over  the  eyes  of 
the  astonished  “  Bishop”  and  then,  surrounded  by  these  brothers 
who  had  been  leading  him  into  the  light  of  Masonic  regenera¬ 
tion,  this  representative  of  the  Church  of  God  knelt,  with  no  one 
to  pray  for  him  but  himself,  directed  to  pray  for  Divine  protec¬ 
tion  from  these  “ruffians  and  murderers”  whom  he  was  about  to 
meet,  who  were  in  reality  his  “brothers.” 

BISHOP  BIRDHUNTER  ATTACKED  BY  A  “RUFFIAN.” 

When  he  had  said  Amen,  he  was  conducted  rapidly  around 
the  lodge  by  the  Senior  Deacon.  At  the  Junior  Warden’s 
station  the  first  ruffian,  representing  Jubela,  seized  him  roughly, 
shook  him  and  said: 

Jubela — “  Grand  Master  Hiram,  I  am  glad  to  meet  you  thus  alone:  this 
is  an  opportunity  I  have  long  sought.  You  know  you  promised  us  when  the 
temple  was  completed  that  we  should  receive  the  secrets  of  a  Master  Mason, 
or  Master’s  word,  whereby  we  might  travel  in  foreign  countries,  work  and 
receive  Master’s  wages:  behold  the  temple  is  well-nigh  completed  and  we 
have  not  obtained  that  for  which  we  so  long  sought.  I  therefore  demand 
of  you  the  secrets  of  a  Master  Mason.” 

The  following  conversation  then  took  place  between  the 
Senior  Deacon,  speaking  for  the  candidate,  and  Jubela: 

Senior  Deacon  (for  candidate) — “My  brother, this  is  an  unusual  way  of 
asking  for  the  secrets  of  a  Master  Mason,  neither  is  it  the  proper  time  nor 
place.  You  keep  your  promise  and  I  will  keep  mine.  Wait  until  the 
temple  is  completed,  when  if  found  worthy  you  will  doubtless  receive 
them,  otherwise  you  cannot.” 

Jubela  (shaking  candidate  rather  roughly) — “  Talk  not  to  me  of  time  nor 
place ;  at  first  I  did  not  doubt  your  veracity,  but  now  I  do.  Give  me  the 
secrets  of  a  Master  Mason,  or  I’ll  take  your  life.” 

Senior  Deacon — “  I  shall  not,  neither  can  they  be  given  until  the  temple 
is  completed,  and  then  only  in  the  presence  of  three :  Solomon,  King  of 
Israel;  Hiram,  King  of  Tyre;  and  myself.” 

Jubela  (shaking  and  pushing  candidate  about  still  more  violently) — 
“Grand  Master  Hiram,  I’ll  have  no  more  of  your  parley ;  give  me  the  secrets 
of  a  Master  Mason  or  the  Master’s  word  or  I’ll  take  your  life  in  an  instant.” 

Senior  Deacon — “  I  will  not.” 

Jubela  (to  candidate) — “Then  die.” 

Jubela  then  drew  a  gauge  across  the  “Bishop’s”  throat  and 
he  passed  on. 

At  the  Senior  Warden’s  station  he  was  seized  still  more 
roughly  by  the  second  ruffian,  representing  Jubelo,  and  the 
following  conversation  took  place: 


170  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

Jubelo  (shaking  candidate  with  some  violence) — “  Grand  Master  Hiram, 
give  me  the  secrets  of  a  Master  Mason.” 

Senior  Deacon  (for  candidate)—  “  I  cannot.” 

Jubelo  (still  more  angrily)—"  Give  me  the  secrets  of  a  Master  Mason 
or  the  Master’s  word,  or  I’ll  take  your  life.” 

Senior  Deacon — “  I  shall  not.”  # 

Jubelo  (shaking  candidate  with  greater  violence) — “Grand  Master 
Hiram,  give  me  the  secrets  of  a  Master  Mason  or  the  Master  s  word,  or  I  11 
take  your  life  in  an  instant.” 

Senior  Deacon — “  I  will  not.” 

Jubelo  (to  candidate) — “  Then  die.” 

Jubelo  struck  poor  Hiram  in  the  chest  with  a  square  and  he 
proceeded  to  the  East,  where  he  was  seized  by  the  third 
ruffian,  representing  Jubelum.  Six  of  the  “brethren”  held  a 
canvas  sheet  behind  him  and  the  following  conversation  took 
place : 

THE  “murder”  OF  HIRAM  ABIFF. 

Jubelum  (shaking  candidate  with  more  violence  than  did  any  of 
the  others)— “  Grand  Master  Hiram,  give  me  the  secrets  of  a  Master 
Mason.” 

Senior  Deacon  (for  candidate) — “  I  cannot.” 

Jubelum — “Jubela  and  Jubelo  you  have  evaded,  but  me  you  cannot 
escape.  My  name  is  Jubelum.  What  I  purpose  that  I  perform.  Give  me 
the  secrets  of  a  Master  Mason  or  the  Master’s  word,  or  I  11  take  your 
life.” 

Senior  Deacon — “  I  shall  not.” 

Jubelum  (taking  setting  maul  and  touching  candidate’s  forehead  with 
the  short  wooden  handle)— “In  my  hand  I  hold  an  instrument  of  death,  with 
which,  if  you  do  not  give  me  the  secrets  of  a  Master  Mason  or  the  Mas¬ 
ter’s  word,  I’ll  take  your  life  in  an  instant.” 

Senior  Deacon — “  I  will  not.” 

Jubelum  (to  candidate) — “  Then  die.” 

Then  followed  the  “  murder”  of  Hiram  Abiff,  Jubelum  strik¬ 
ing  him  in  the  head  with  the  padded  “setting-maul,”  and  at 
the  same  time  giving  him  a  strong  push  which  sent  him  back¬ 
wards  into  the  canvas  sheet. 

There  lay  the  Masonic-Methodist  Bishop,  playing  “dead,” 
like  a  small  boy  in  his  games  with  his  playmates! 

The  great  audience  looked  with  disgust  upon  the  silly 
play  which  a  million  men  nightly  enact  with  as  much 
gravity  as  if  it  were  really  a  most  important  piece  of  busi¬ 
ness. 

Then  followed  the  alarm  of  the  three  ruffians  at  the 
fatal  consequence  of  their  action,  their  hastily  made  plans 
for  the  disposal  of  the  body  and  their  temporary  burial 
of  it  under  the  rubbish  of  the  unfinished  temple  (lodge-room 
chairs). 

Jubelum  remained  to  watch  the  body  while  Jubela  and 
Jubelo  went  to  dig  a  “grave.” 

This  was  done  in  pantomime  with  pick  and  shovel,  near  the 
Senior  Warden’s  station. 


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While  they  were  digging-,  the  Worshipful  Master  gave  twelve 
strokes,  very  slowly,  upon  a  bell  before  him. 

“burial”  OF  HIRAM  ABIFF. 

At  the  stroke  of  twelve,  which  they  called  “low  twelve,” 
Jubela  and  Jubelo  again  approached  and  the  following  conver¬ 
sation  took  place: 

Jubelum — “  Is  that  you,  Jubela?” 

Jubela — “Yes.” 

Jubelum — “Is  that  you,  Jubelo?” 

Jubelo — “  Yes.” 

Both  together — “  Is  that  you,  Jubelum?” 

Jubelum — “Yes;  low  twelve  and  not  yet  discovered.  Now  what  shall 
we  do  with  the  body?” 

Jubela — “Let  us  convey  it  a  westerly  course  from  the  temple  to  the 
brow  of  a  hill  west  of  Mount  Moriah  where  we  have  been  and  dug  a  grave 
due  East  and  West,  six  feet  perpendicular,  and  there  bury  it.” 

Altogether — “  Agreed.” 

The  canvas  and  the  body  were  then  lifted  to  the  shoulders 
of  the  three  ruffians  and  borne  slowly  to  the  place  where  the 
“grave”  was  dug.  There  they  were  “buried”  and  an  “acacia 
tree”  (Senior  Warden’s  column)  was  planted  at  the  head  of  the 
grave  to  conceal  it  and  mark  the  spot. 

The  ruffians  then  passed  out  to  the  preparation  room. 
They  soon  reentered  and  saluted  one  who  represented  a  sea- 
captain,  with  whom  they  held  a  conversation,  asking  him  to 
take  them  with  him  to  Ethiopia.  He  said  that  he  would,  but 
asked  them  whether  they  had  King  Solomon’s  pass. 

They  said  they  had  not,  but  had  plenty  of  money.  This  he 
refused,  and  they  returned  to  the  body. 

After  discussing  plans  for  escape,  they  decided  to  secrete 
themselves  in  the  mountains,  and  left  the  lodge-room. 

king  Solomon’s  consternation  at  the  absence  of  hiram 

ABIFF. 

Then  there  was  a  moment’s  confusion  in  the  lodge-room, 
and  the  Worshipful  Master,  impersonating  King  Solomon, 
called  the  brethren  to  order  and  the  following  questions  and 
answers  were  given: 

Worshipful  Master  (as  King  Solomon) — “Brother  Grand  Senior  War¬ 
den,  what  is  the  cause  of  this  confusion,  why  are  not  the  craft  pursuing  their 
labors?” 

Senior  Warden  (rising  and  making  due  guard  of  Fellow  Craft) — “  Most 
Excellent  King  Solomon,  there  are  no  designs  upon  the  trestle  board.” 

Worshipful  Master  (in  astonishment) — “  No  designs  upon  the  trestle 
board?  Where  is  our  Grand  Master  Hiram  Abiff?” 

Senior  Warden  (making  due  guard)— “  Most  Excellent  King  Solomon, 
he  has  not  been  seen  since  high  twelve  yesterday.” 

Worshipful  Master  (in  greater  astonishment) — “Not  been  seen  since 
high  twelve  yesterday !  Then  I  fear  he  is  indisposed.  Let  strict  search 
and  due  inquiry  be  made  in  and  about  the  several  apartments  of  the  temple 
and  see  if  he  cannot  be  found.” 


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Senior  Warden  (making  due  guard) — “Most  Excellent  King  Solomon, 
strict  search  and  due  inquiry  have  already  been  made  and  our  Grand  Master 
Hiram  Abiff  can  nowhere  be  found.” 

Worshipful  Master  (sorrowfully) — “Then  I  fearsome  fatal  accident  has 
befallen  him.  (Turning  to  Secretary)  Brother  Grand  Secretary,  you  will 
cause  the  several  rolls  of  the  workmen  to  be  called  to  see  if  any  are  missing.” 

The  Master  retired  to  his  seat. 

The  Secretary  then  called  a  roll  of  Jewish  names,  the 
brethren  answering  “Here!”  in  all  cases  except  when  the 
names  Jubela,  Jubelo  and  Jubelum  were  called. 

The  Secretary  returned  and  reported  that  these  three  were 
absent. 

TWELVE  FELLOW  CRAFTS  CONFESS  PREMEDITATED  GUILT. 

Then  three  Fellow  Crafts  entered,  wearing  their  aprons 
and  having  on  their  hands  white  gloves,  as  tokens  of  inno¬ 
cence. 

They  approached  King  Solomon  and  stated  that  they  were 
twelve  out  of  fifteen  Fellow  Crafts  who  had  determined  to 
extort  from  Hiram  Abiff  the  Grand  Master’s  secrets  or  kill 
him. 

They  said  that  they  twelve  had  recanted,  but  feared  that 
the  other  three  had  persisted  in  their  murderous  design. 
They  acknowledged  their  premeditated  guilt  and  most  humbly 
implored  his  pardon. 

King  Solomon  directed  them  to  divide  into  four  parties  and 
search  the  four  points  of  the  compass  for  the  ruffians. 

The  three  Fellow  Crafts  then  retired  to  the  preparation 
room,  but  quickly  returned,  and  meeting  one  who  represented 
the  wayfaring  man,  asked  him  if  he  had  seen  any  strangers  pass 
that  way. 

He  replied  that  he  had,  and  described  the  three  who 
looked  like  workmen  from  the  Temple  of  Jerusalem,  say¬ 
ing  that  they  had  desired  passage  into  Ethiopia,  but  not 
having  King  Solomon’s  pass  had  turned  back  into  the 
country. 

The  three  Fellow  Crafts,  believing  that  these  three  must 
have  been  the  ruffians  who  slew  Grand  Master  Hiram,  reported 
the  matter  to  King  Solomon.  He  sent  them  out  on  a  still 
further  search. 

While  on  this  search,  one  of  the  Fellow  Crafts,  becoming 
weary,  reclined  to  rest  near  the  head  of  the  “dead  ”  Bishop’s 

grave. 

Upon  attempting  to  arise  he  seized  the  “play”  acacia  tree 
and  tore  it  up  by  the  roots.  This  seeming  to  him  a  suspicious 
circumstance,  he  called  back  his  companions,  who  were  con¬ 
tinuing  their  mock  search,  and  the  new-made  “grave”  was 

discovered. 


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Just  then,  in  a  wailing  tone,  the  voice  of  Jubela  was  heard 
coming  from  the  cleft  of  a  rock  near  by  (the  preparation 
room) : 

JUBELA,  JUBELO  AND  JUBELUM  BEWAIL  THEIR  GUILT  AND  ARE 

CAPTURED. 

Jubela — “Oh,  that  my  throat  had  been  cut  across,  my  tongue  torn  out 
by  its  roots  and  buried  in  the  rough  sands  of  the  sea  at  low  water  mark, 
where  the  tide  ebbs  and  flows  twice  in  twenty-four  hours,  ere  I  had  con¬ 
sented  to  the  death  of  so  great  a  man  as  our  Grand  Master  Hiram  Abiff!” 

The  Fellow  Crafts  excitedly  agreed  that  the  owner  of  the 
voice  must  be  Jubela. 

Then  Jubelo  uttered  his  wail: 

Jubelo — “Oh,  that  my  left  breast  had  been  torn  open,  my  heart  plucked 
out  and  given  as  a  prey  to  the  beasts  of  the  field  and  the  fowls  of  the  air, 
ere  I  had  been  accessory  to  the  death  of  so  good  a  man  as  our  Grand 
Master  Hiram  Abiff!” 

The  Fellow  Crafts  having  identified  Jubelo’s  voice,  Jubelum 
was  heard : 

Jubelum — “  Oh,  that  my  body  had  been  severed  in  twain,  my  bowels 
taken  from  thence  and  burned  to  ashes  and  the  ashes  scattered  to  the  four 
winds  of  heaven,  so  that  no  more  trace  or  remembrance  might  be  had  of  so 
vile  and  perjured  a  wretch  as  I,  ere  I  had  caused  the  death  of  so  great 
and  so  good  a  man  as  our  Grand  Master  Hiram  Abiff!  Ah!  Jubela  and 
Jubelo,  it  is  I  who  am  more  guilty  than  you  both;  it  was  I  who  struck  the 
fatal  blow,  it  was  I  who  killed  him.” 

The  Fellow  Crafts  then  argued  that,  although  these  ruffians 
were  desperate  men,  they  (the  Fellow  Crafts)  had  truth  and 
justice  on  their  side,  and  hence  they  rushed  in  and  seized  the 
murderers. 

PRETENDED  “EXECUTION”  OF  THE  MURDERERS. 

Amidst  the  laughter  of  the  audience,  they  dragged  them 
before  King  Solomon  and  reported  what  they  had  heard  them 
say.  Solomon  secured  from  each  trembling  culprit  an  admis¬ 
sion  of  his  guilt  and  sent  them  out  to  execution.  They  were 
dragged  out  by  the  three  Fellow  Crafts,  who  were  supposed  to 
execute  each  of  them  with  the  horrible  mutilations  he  had 
mentioned  in  his  confession. 

The  pretended  execution  was  quickly  over  and  the  three 
Fellow  Crafts  reported  the  fact  to  King  Solomon. 

They  were  then  sent  to  find  the  body  of  the  murdered 
Grand  Master,  “  His  Majesty”  directing  them  to  “observe 
whether  the  Master’s  word,  or  a  key  to  it,  or  anything 
appertaining  to  the  Master’s  degree,  be  found  on  or  about  the 
body.” 

The  three  Fellow  Crafts  then  found  the  “grave”  by  hunting 
up  the  supposed  “acacia  tree,”  and  proceeded  to  “dig  down  to 
see  what  they  could  find.”  This  process  consisted  in  rolling 
back  the  canvas,  which  had  all  this  time  been  wrapped  about 


174  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

the  body  of  the  “  Bishop.”  This  done,  they  arose  and,  spread¬ 
ing  their  hands  over  the  body,  turned  their  heads  to  the  right, 
as  if  “smelling  the  stinking  bones  of  Hiram  Abiff,”  and 
exclaimed : 

“This  is  indeed  the  body  of  our  Grand  Master  Hiram  Abiff.” 

Then  they  conversed  as  follows: 

Fellow  Craft  No.  i— “What  was  it  that  King  Solomon  ordered  us  to  do?” 

Fellow  Craft  No.  2— “To  observe  whether  the  Master’s  word  or  a  key  to 
it  or  anything  appertaining  to  the  Master’s  degree  be  on  or  about  the  body.” 

Fellow  Craft  No.  3—“  What  do  we  know  of  the  Master’s  word  or  a  key 
to  it?  We’re  only  Fellow  Crafts.” 

Fellow  Craft  No.  1— “  True,  but  we  must  obey  orders.” 

Fellow  Craft  No.  2—“  Well,  let  us  examine  and  see  what  we  can  find.” 

After  searching  about  the  body  the  Fellow  Crafts  found  the 
jewel  suspended  from  its  neck  and  decided  to  convey  it  to  King 
Solomon,  saying  nothing  about  the  word,  key,  etc.,  unless 
questioned.  When  they  reported  to  the  king  that  they  had 
found  the  body,  he  asked  them  about  the  Master’s  word,  etc., 
but  they  replied  that  they  were  only  Fellow  Crafts  and  knew 
nothing  of  these  things.  One  of  the  Fellow  Crafts  then  handed 
the  king  the  jewel,  upon  which  he  exclaimed: 

KING  SOLOMON  GOES  TO  “RAISE”  THE  DEAD  HIRAM  ABIFF. 

Worshipful  Master  (receiving  the  plumb)— “  This  is  indeed  the  jewel 
of  our  Grand  Master  Hiram  Abiff.  There  can  be  no  longer  doubt  of  his 
untimely  end.  You  Fellow  Crafts  will  now  form  a  solemn  procession  and 
go  and  assist  me  in  raising  the  body;  and  my  worthy  companion  of  Tyre 
(addressing  the  Senior  Warden,  as  Hiram,  King  of  Tyre),  since  the  Master’s 
word  is  now  lost  I  propose  that  the  first  sign  made  upon  arriving  at  the 
grave  and  the  first  word  spoken  after  the  body  shall  be  raised  shall  be 
adopted  as  the  sign  and  word  for  the  regulation  of  all  Master  lodges  until 
future  generations  shall  find  out  the  right.” 

The  Worshipful  Master  then  gave  three  raps,  which  called 
the  “brethren”  to  their  feet,  and  they  gathered  in  a  circle 
about  the  prostrate  “  Bishop.”  As  they  did  so,  the  Senior 
Warden  slipped  the  hoodwink  from  his  eyes  in  order  that  he 
might  see  the  rest  of  the  performance. 

The  Worshipful  Master  and  all  the  “brethren”  then  spread 
their  hands  over  the  body,  making  the  “due  guard”  of  a  Master 
Mason.  They  then  raised  their  arms  to  a  vertical  position, 
brought  them  down  until  the  elbows  formed  a  right  angle, 
then  down  to  the  sides.  This  motion  is  the  grand  hailing  sign, 
or  sign  of  distress,  of  a  Master  Mason. 

The  mock  Masons  then  marched  three  times  around  the 
“dead”  body,  singing  the  following  dirge  to  the  tune  of 
Pleyel’s  Hymn: 

“Solemn  strikes  the  funeral  chime, 

Notes  of  our  departing  time, 

As  we  journey  here  below 
Through  a  pilgrimage  of  woe. 


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“  Mortals  now  indulge  a  tear, 

For  mortality  is  here. 

See  how  wide  her  trophies  wave 
O’er  the  slumbers  of  the  grave. 

“  Here  another  guest  we  bring; 

Seraphs  of  celestial  wing, 

To  our  funeral  altar  come, 

Waft  our  friend  and  brother  home.” 

THE  SHAMEFUL  AND  BLASPHEMOUS  “RAISING”  OF  HIRAM  ABIFF. 

The  procession  stopped  with  the  Worshipful  Master  at  the 
head  of  the  “grave.”  At  the  direction  of  the  Worshipful  Mas¬ 
ter  (King  Solomon),  the  Junior  Warden,  in  the  capacity  of  an 
Entered  Apprentice,  attempted  to  “raise”  the  “Bishop”  by 
the  Entered  Apprentice  grip.  His  hand  slipped  from  that  of 
“Hiram”  and  he  reported  to  the  king  that  “ owing  to  the  high 
state  of  putrefaction,  the  body  having  been  already  dead  fifteen 
days,”  the  skin  slipped  from  the  flesh  and  the  body  could  not 
be  so  raised. 

The  grand  hailing  sign  and  these  words  accompanying  it 
were  uttered : 

“O  Lord,  my  God,  is  there  no  help  for  the  widow’s  son?” 

The  Senior  Warden,  representing  Hiram,  King  of  Tyre, 
then  attempted,  with  the  Fellow  Craft’s  grip,  to  raise  the  Grand 
Master  Hiram.  His  hand  also  slipped  off  and  he  reported  to 
Solomon  that  “owing  to  reasons  already  assigned,  the  flesh 
cleaves  from  the  bone  and  the  body  cannot  be  so  raised.” 

The  sign  of  distress  was  again  given,  this  time  with  the 
exclamation,  “Oh  Lord,  my  God,  I  fear  the  Master’s  Word  is 
forever  lost !” 

King  Solomon  then  addressed  King  Hiram  of  Tyre,  saying, 
“My  worthy  companion  of  Tyre,  what  shall  we  do?” 

The  Senior  Warden,  representing  King  Hiram,  answered, 
“  Let  us  pray.” 

MASONS  MAKE  A  MOCK  OF  PRAYER. 

A  blasphemous  and  horrible  mockery  of  prayer  was  then 
represented,  the  “brethren”  all  kneeling  about  an  alleged 
open  grave,  containing  the  stinking  body  of  the  mythical 
Hiram  Abiff,  the  son  of  the  widow  of  Tyre,  the  Worshipful 
Master  reading  the  so-called  prayer. 

After  the  alleged  prayer,  they  all  arose  and  the  Worshipful 
Master  (King  Solomon)  said: 

Worshipful  Master — “  I  now  command  the  most  perfect  silence.  And 
my  worthy  companion  of  Tyre  (to  Senior  Warden),  with  your  assistance  I 
will  now  take  the  body  by  the  strong  grip  of  a  Master  Mason,  or  ‘  lion’s 
paw,’  and  raise  it  upon  the  ‘five  points  of  fellowship.’” 

The  Master  then  stepped  forward,  and  taking  the  candidate 
by  the  right  hand — grasping  it  firmly — pressed  the  tops  of  his 
fingers  very  strongly  against  the  joint  of  the  candidate’s  wrist 


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where  it  unites  with  the  hand,  the  candidate  pressing  his  fingers 
against  the  corresponding  part  of  the  Master’s  hand  and  the 
space  between  the  thumb  and  first  finger  of  each  being  inter¬ 
locked.  (This  is  a  very  firm  grip  and  is  called  the  “strong 
grip  of  a  Master  Mason,”  or  “lion’s  paw.”)  The  Master  also 
with  his  left  hand  laid  hold  of  the  candidate’s  right  arm  near 
the  shoulder,  while  the  Senior  Warden  took  him  by  the  left 
arm,  and  then  both  Master  and  Senior  Warden,  exerting  con¬ 
siderable  force,  lifted  him  to  his  feet,  on  “the  five  points  of 

fellowship.”  .  .  , 

This  was  done  by  the  Master  still  retaining  his  grasp  of  the 

candidate’s  right  hand,  and  placing  the  inside  of  his  right  foot 
against  the  inside  of  the  right  foot  of  the  candidate,  the  toe  of 
the  one  being  towards  the  heel  of  the  other,  his  right  knee 
against  the  candidate’s  right  knee,  the  right  breast  of  the  one 
close  against  the  right  breast  of  the  other,  the  Master’s  left 
hand  against  the  candidate’s  back  and  the  candidate’s  left  hand 
against  the  Master’s  back,  also  the  Master’s  right  cheek  against 
the  right  cheek  of  the  candidate,  or  the  mouth  of  the  one  to 
the  ear  of  the  other. 

Thus,  in  the  close  embrace  of  the  Worshipful  Master,  who 
might  have  been  an  unclean  villain,  and  is  such  in  many  lodges, 
the  newly-made  brother,  Right  Reverend  Charles  H.  Bird- 
hunter,  D.  D.,  had  spoken  into  his  ear  the  grand  Masonic  word, 
“  Mah-hah-bone  !  ” 

“shame!” 


THE  GREAT  AUDIENCE  CRIES 


The  bogus  “resurrection”  having  thus  been  accomplished, 
the  audience  sat  horror-stricken  at  the  awful  blasphemy  of  it. 
The  General  Overseer  spoke  a  few  ringing  words  upon  this 
travesty  upon  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Then  he  said,  c  Shame! 
Shame!”  In  an  instant  the  reply  came  back  from  the  great 
audience  in  a  perfect  roar  of  indignation,  “SHAME!” 

This  closed  the  degree  work  of  Red  Dragon  Lodge  No.  666, 
the  third  section  being  omitted. 

The  General  Overseer  then  said: 

There  are  said  to  be  a  million  Masons  in  America  who  go 
through  that  shocking,  shameful  lie  of  the  death  and  resurrec¬ 
tion  of  Hiram  Abiff.  That  is  all  there  is  in  the  first  three 
degrees  of  Masonry,  usually  called  the  Blue  Lodge.  There 
is  no  Jesus  Christ  in  it. 

There  are  more  than  a  hundred  other  Secret  Orders  in 
America  which  number  no  less  than  7, 000,000  members.  There 
are  over  8,000,000  altogether. 

The  churches  have  lost  their  power.  Lodge-rooms  have 
taken  the  place  of  the  Church  of  God. 

Now  you  are  going  to  see  that  which  is  a  good  deal  more 
interesting  and  ludicrous,  but  which  covers  in  a  large  degree 
7,000,000  members  of  Secret  Societies. 


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The  work  of  the  second  section  of  the  Golden  Rule  degree 
in  Odd  Fellowship,  varied  with  some  work  from  other  Secret 
Orders,  was  then  given. 

RIDICULOUS  WORK  OF  THE  “GOLDEN  RULE  DEGREE”  OF  ODD 

FELLOWSHIP  EXPOSED. 

With  the  exception  of  a  few  chairs  along  the  east  wall,  the 
lodge-room  was  cleared  of  furniture.  Clothed  in  flowing  robes, 
highly  colored,  and  bearing  a  shepherd’s  crook,  the  Chief 
Patriarch  stood  at  first  on  the  platform  alone,  beating-  time  on 
the  floor  with  his  rod. 

Marching  in  time  to  the  resounding  thumps  of  that  rod,  the 
Odd  Fellows  and  others  marched  upon  the  platform  disguised 
as  Jews,  Mohammedans,  Hindus,  Chinese,  Indians  and  negroes, 
each  with  the  characteristic  weapon  of  his  race. 

At  the  direction  of  the  Chief  Patriarch,  another  ex-Odd 
Fellow,  fantastically  robed  to  represent  the  Senior  Warden  of 
the  Camp,  brought  in  the  candidate.  This  candidate  was 
divested  of  all  clothing  except  his  shirt,  trousers  and  shoes, 
and  his  eyes  were  hoodwinked. 

When  he  reached  the  center  of  the  lodge,  che  hoodwink 
was  removed  and  he  beheld  the  strangely-robed  “patriarchs” 
facing  him. 

The  Senior  then  explained  to  him  the  various  races  and 
religions  represented  by  these  characters,  the  representatives 
of  each  race  bowing  to  the  patriarch  as  they  were  mentioned. 
The  candidate  was  then  roughly  treated  by  the  bogus  Moham¬ 
medans  for  being  a  Christian.  A  little  work  from  another 
order  was  here  introduced,  and  the  “patriarch”  was  forced  to 
pass  through  an  arch,  made  by  the  joined  hands  of  his  brethren, 
who  pressed  him  to  the  floor  as  he  made  his  progress,  crawling 
upon  his  hands  and  knees. 

THE  CANDIDATE  BOUND  BY  A  CHAIN. 

At  the  end  of  the  arch  he  wa^  bound  about  the  body  with  a 
chain  by  the  Mohammedans. 

All  this  was  accompanied  with  a  great  deal  of  noisy  shout¬ 
ing  and  “horse  play.”  Suddenly  the  Chief  Patriarch  called  the 
lodge  to  order  and  demanded  to  know  the  trouble.  The 
Senior  Warden  informed  him  that  the  Mohammedans  had 
bound  the  patriarch,”  and  the  Chief  Patriarch  ordered  all 
concerned  to  be  brought  before  him. 

The  “patriarch”  was  again  hoodwinked,  and  as  he  stood 
bound  before  the  Chief  Patriarch,  the  various  characters  seated 
themselves  on  either  side  of  that  officer  in  attitudes  of  peace 
and  brotherly  love.  The  hoodwink  was  then  removed  and  the 
Chief  Patriarch  gave  a  lecture,  the  chief  point  in  which  was 
that  under  the  “Golden  Rule”  Christian  and  Jew,  Moham- 


178  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

medan  and  Pagan  met  on  [terms  of  equality.  The  General 
Overseer  pointed  out,  at  this  juncture,  that  Odd  Fellowship 
dragged  Christ  down  to  the  level  of  the  filthy,  bestial  gods  of 
the  vilest  pagans. 

THE  “DAY  MARE  OF  THE  DESERT”  EXHIBITED. 

The  “patriarch”  was  again  hoodwinked  and  informed  that 
a  steed  was  about  to  be  brought  to  carry  him  on  a  perilous 
journey.  An  ex-Odd  Fellow,  robed  fantastically,  then  brought 
in  the  now  famous  “Day  Mare  of  the  Desert,”  which  is  used 
in  the  “rough  work”  of  various  orders.  The  candidate  was 
roughly  seized,  passed  from  hand  to  hand  over  the  heads  of 
the  “brethren,”  and  finally  placed  upon  this  absurd  “steed.” 
A  paper  cap  marked  I.  O.  O.  F.,  which  the  General  Overseer 
explained  stood  for  100  Fools,  was  placed  upon  his  head,  and 
in  his  hand  was  placed  a  stuffed  club,  which  he  was  told  was 
the  sabre  of  his  sire,  “The  Sword  of  Bunker  Hill.” 

Then,  amidst  the  laughter  of  thousands  of  people,  the 
“patriarch,”  representing,  perhaps,  a  minister  of  the  Gospel, 
was  wheeled  around  the  platform  on  the  “  Day  Mare,”  sur¬ 
rounded  by  what  might  well  be  a  group  of  yelling  savages. 

Then  the  handle  was  pulled  out,  the  vehicle  was  overturned 
and  the  “patriarch”  “spilled”  upon  the  floor.  Rolling  to  the 
edge  of  the  platfoim,  he  sprang  over  the  reporters’  table  and 
ran  down  the  center  aisle  into  the  vestibule. 

Thus  ended  the  utterly  silly  and  nonsensical  rot  upon  which 
7,000,000  people,  who  claim  to  be  intelligent,  sane  and  of  law¬ 
ful  age,  spend  years  of  valuable  time  and  thousands  of  dollars 
of  money,  which  is  thus  diverted  from  its  rightful  use  in  the 
feeding,  clothing  and  educating  of  the  young,  the  hope  of 
Home,  Church  and  Nation. 

The  General  Overseer  then  said: 

Every  one  in  this  meeting  who  desires  to  be  free  from  sin 
and  to  fight  for  right  with  the  witness  of  the  Spirit,  please  to 
stand.  All  who  desire  to  serve  God  fully,  stand. 

PRAYER  OF  CONSECRATION. 

My  God  and  Father,  in  Jesus’  Name  I  come  to  Thee.  Take  me  as  I 

am.  Make  me  what  I  ought  to  be  in  spirit,  in  soul,  in  body.  Give  me  Thy 
Holy  Spirit  that  I  may  do  right;  that  I  may  restore  wherein  I  have  done 
wrong;  that  I  may  confess;  that  I  may  trust  in  Jesus  the  Lamb  of  God  that 
taketh  away  the  sin  of  the  world.  Give  me  power  to  overcome  the  infernal 
works  of  darkness;  to  reprove  them,  and  to  fight  against  these  lodges  which 
destroy  Home,  destroy  the  Church,  destroy  the  Nation;  which  defile  the 
earth,  and  bring  a  curse  and  not  a  blessing,  for  Jesus’  sake.  Deliver  me 
and  bless  me  and  help  me  to  be  a  blessing  to  others.  (All  repeat  the 
prayer,  clause  by  clause,  after  Dr.  Dowie.) 

Now  did  you  mean  it? 

Voices — “Yes.” 

Dr.  Dowie — Will  you  live  it? 

Voices — “  Yes,” 


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179 


Dr.  Dowie— God  help  you.  I  am  thankful  that  at  half¬ 
past  eleven  o’clock,  at  the  end  of  this  long  service,  thousands 
of  persons  are  still  left  to  utter  this  Consecration  Prayer. 

Pray  for  me,  and  let  us  sing  the  Doxology. 

After  the  singing  of  the  Doxology  the  meeting  was  closed 
with  the  following 

BENEDICTION. 

Beloved,  abstain  from  all  appearance  of  evil,  and  may  the  very  God  of 
Peace  Himself  sanctify  you  wholly;  and  I  pray  God  your  whole  Spirit  and 
Soul  and  Body  be  preserved  entire,  without  blame  unto  the  coming  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ;  faithful  is  He  that  calleth  you,  who  also  will  do  it;  the 
grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus,  the  love  of  God  our  Father,  the  fellowship  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  our  Comforter  and  Guide;  one  Eternal  God,  abide  in  you, bless 
you  and  keep  you,  and  all  the  Israel  of  God  everywhere,  forever.  Amen. 


LIST  OF  THE  BRAVE  MEN  WHO  EXPOSED  THE  “SECRETS.” 


The  following  is  a  list  of  those  who  took  part,  so  bravely 
and  well,  in  the  above  startling  exposure  of  the  so-called 
secrets  of  the  first  and  third  degrees  of  so-called  Ancient  Free¬ 
masonry.  There  is  also  given  after  the  name  of  each  the 
degree  in  Masonry  to  which  he  had  attained: 


Edmond  Ronayne,  Chapter  Mason. 
Arthur  A.  Fox,  Master  Mason. 
Frank  H.  West,  Chapter  Mason. 
Burt  M.  Rice,  Knight  Templar. 
Silas  C.  Burnett,  Knight  Templar 
and  Mystic  Shriner. 

Wm.  S.  Peckham,  Master  Mason. 

P.  W.  Zoller,  Master  Mason. 

H.  W.  Judd,  Thirty-second  Degree 
Scottish  Rite  Mason. 

Wade  H.  Myers,  Master  Mason. 

A.  S.  Lasley,  Chapter  Mason. 

Henry  Bratsch,  Master  Mason. 

John  Dow,  Master  Mason. 


A.  Schmalgemeier,  Master  Mason. 
Gustav  Wolter,  Master  Mason. 

W.  A.  Raymond,  Master  Mason. 

B.  F.  H.  Stanton,  Knight  Templar. 
W.  Y.  French,  Master  Mason. 

T.  R.  Evans,  Master  Mason. 

A.  C.  Jenson,  Master  Mason. 

John  Murdock,  Master  Mason. 

Dr.  Matthew  Jarvis,  Master  Mason. 
F.  O.  Eddy,  Master  Mason. 

Louis  Lindskog,  Master  Mason. 
Joseph  H.  Lamond,  Master  Mason. 

J.  C.  Farnfield,  Mason. 


The  following-named  gentlemen  participated  in  the  mock 
conferring  of  the  “Golden  Rule  Degree”  upon  a  so-called 
“Patriarch.”  Among  them  are  ex-members  of  several  Secret 
Orders : 


E.  A.  Parsons, 

R.  H.  Harper, 

W.  H.  Bogue, 
Andrew  Peterson, 

F.  H.  Forshall, 

W.  H.  Disbro, 

G.  W.  Smale, 

J.  H.  Cunningham, 
Jacob  Bollinger, 

G.  F.  T.  Murphy, 


Dr.  W.  A.  Zeno, 
W.  A.  Starret, 

J.  E.  Daniels, 
George  Matson, 
William  Green, 
J.  F.  Porter, 

P.  T.  C.  Leise, 
A.  F.  Schaffer, 
John  H.  Shaw, 
And  others. 


APPENDIX. 


The  following  article  was  published  in  “  Leaves  of  Healing?  Volume 

VII,  Number  2,  in  connection  with  the  Series  of  Discourses,  “ Zion's  Conflict 

With  Methodist  Apostasy  ” 

Zion’s  Conflict— 181 


1 82  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY . 


CAPT.  WILLIAM  MORGAN. 

MURDERED  BY  FREEMASONS  IN  NIAGARA  RIVER,  ABOUT  SEPTEMBER 
l8,  1826,  FOR  EXPOSING  THE  SHAMEFUL  SECRETS 
OF  THE  MASONIC  ORDER. 


ZION’S  INQUISITION  FOR  BLOOD. 


THE  STORY  RETOLD  OF  THE  MURDER  OF  CAPT.  WILLIAM  MORGAN, 
OF  BATAVIA,  NEW  YORK,  BY  FREEMASONS,  IN 
NIAGARA  RIVER,  SEPTEMBER  l8,  1826. 


Nearly  seventy-four  years  have  passed  away  since  the 
Rev.  F.  H.  Cummings,  Chaplain  of  a  Royal  Arch  Chap¬ 
ter,  at  a  Masonic  banquet  held  in  Lewiston,  New  York,  on 
September  18,  1826,  was  called  on  for  a  toast. 

In  the  expressive  words  of  the  Hon.  Thurlow  Weed,  “  He 
responded  with  peculiar  emphasis,  and  in  the  language  of  their 
ritual,  ‘The  enemies  of  our  order:  May  they  find  a  grave  six 
feet  deep,  six  feet  long,  and  six  feet  due  east  and  west.’ 

“  Immediately  after  that  toast,  which  was  received  with  great 
enthusiasm,”  a  number  of  the  banqueters  left  the  table  and 
drove  to  Fort  Niagara.  They  took  Capt.  Morgan  from  the  cell 
where  the  Freemasons  had  confined  him  after  they  had  kid¬ 
naped  him,  pretending  to  be  his  friends.  They  said  that  they 
were  taking  him  to  Canada;  took  him  down  to  a  boat,  which 
was  ready  at  the  mouth  of  the  Niagara  River,  and  after  gagging 
him,  and  binding  his  hands,  they  wound  a  rope  around  his  body, 
tied  to  him  heavy  weights,  and  one  of  them,  whose  confession 
we  give  in  the  documents  which  follow,  pushed  him  over  into 
the  dark  river. 

The  terrible  story  is  told  in  many  of  its  details,  some  of 
the  narratives  being  given  on  a  very  recent  date  in  Central 
Zion  Tabernacle  by  an  aged  man  whose  father  had  taken 
part  in  protecting  Morgan’s  publisher,  Miller,  and  in  whose 
house  Mrs.  Morgan  had  lived  for  ninety  days  after  the  murder 
of  her  husband. 

The  horrible  confession  made  to  this  brother,  Asa  Curtiss, 
of  Wheeler,  Indiana,  by  the  son  of  one  of  those  who  com¬ 
mitted  the  crime,  has  brought  up  once  more  the  terrible  guilt 
of  the  Masonic-Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  which  has  never 
repudiated  the  awful  toast  of  one  of  its  ministers,  but  has,  on 

Zion’s  Conflict— 183 


1 84  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

the  contrary,  affiliated  itself  so  closely  with  the  Masonic  order 
that  the  Methodist  Conferences  of  today  are  mainly  composed 
of  Freemasons. 

In  1898,  at  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  the  Rev.  J.  F.  Crouch,  a 
member  of  the  Conference  then  in  session,  said  that  ninety 
per  cent  of  the  members  were  Freemasons. 

It  is  probable  that  this  proportion  obtains  in  the  Quadren¬ 
nial  General  Conference  which  is  sitting  in  Chicago  at  this  time. 

We  propose  to  demand,  in  the  Name  of  Christ  our  Lord, 
an  account  of  the  blood  of  Morgan  at  their  hands,  and  to  show 
the  diabolical,  antichristian,  and  absolutely  heathen  nature  of 
this  Secret  Order,  which  is  but  a  form  of  Baal-worship. 

For  many  years  we  have  felt  that  some  one  must  lay  bare, 
in  such  a  way  as  to  arrest  the  attention  of  the  whole  country 
and  the  world,  the  horrible  fact  that  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  and  other  churches  have  been  sold  out  by  their  leaders 
to  the  Masonic  Order,  and  therefore  to  the  World,  the  Flesh, 
and  the  Devil.  No  language  can  be  too  severe  with  which  to 
characterize  this  betrayal  of  the  Covenant  of  God  by  those  who 
have  made  a  “Covenant  with  Death  and  an  Agreement  with 
Hell,”  and  who  deliberately  transgress  the  law  of  God  by  affili¬ 
ating  themselves  with  the  “unfruitful  works  of  darkness.” 

This  is  the  condition  today,  for  the  most  part,  of  the  most 
prominent  leaders  of  the  so-called  churches;  and  in  the  series 
of  discourses  which  we  begin  tomorrow  in  Central  Zion  Taber¬ 
nacle,  we  will  deal  especially  with  the  Methodist  Apostasy. 

Once  more  that  silent  figure,  gagged  and  bound,  stands 
there  in  the  darkness,  and  pleads,  mutely,  for  the  vengeance  of 
God  against  this  horrible  system  of  Secretism  which  has  seized 
upon  the  pulpit  and  the  platform,  the  press  and  the  people, 
twining  its  octopus-like  tentacles  around  justice  and  truth,  law 
and  order,  strangling  the  Home,  the  Church  and  the  Nation. 

Like  some  horrible  devil-fish,  its  object  seems  to  be  only 
destruction,  and  its  alleged  charities  and  religious  ceremonies 
are  but  a  flimsily  veiled  pretense,  under  which  it  covers  the 
deadliest  hatred  to  God  and  the  Gospel  of  Salvation  and  Heal¬ 
ing  and  Holy  Living  which  He  sent  to  us  in  the  person  of  His 
Son,  and  in  the  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 

We  denounce  the  solemn  mockeries  of  the  Quadrennial 
Conference  now  being  held  in  Chicago,  and  before  God  and 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  1 85 


men  and  angels  we  brand  the  organization  as  one  that  has 
really  become  the  Church  of  the  Masonic  Order:  an  order 
which  denies  the  Supremacy  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  as  King 
of  Kings  and  Lord  of  Lords,  and  which,  while  pretending  to 
revere  the  Bible,  leaves  out  every  reference  to  the  Name  of 
Jesus  from  all  its  ritual,  in  the  thirty-three  degrees  of  straight 
Masonry.  In  all  its  secret  lodge  worship  Masonry  never  owns 
Him  as  the  one  Mediator  between  God  and  man. 

Multitudes  of  godly  men  and  women,  youths  and  maidens, 
and  doubtless  many  hundreds  of  ministers,  are  to  be  found  in 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  who  have  no  sympathy  what¬ 
ever  with  the  claims  of  this  arrogant  and  Satanicallv  inspired 
system  of  secret  devilry.  These  can  never  be  set  free  until  the 
real  nature  of  Masonic-Methodism  is  exposed,  until  this  organ¬ 
ization  is  shown  to  be  diabolical,  and  then  millions  will  rally 
around  the  Standard  which  Zion  is  raising  in  every  part  of  this 
land  and  throughout  the  world:  the  standard  of  a  Primitive, 
Catholic  and  Apostolic  Christianity. 

* 

ASA  CURTISS’  STORY  OF  MORGAN’S  ABDUCTION  AND 

MURDER. 

Extracts  from  Editorial  Notes,  Leaves  of  Healing,  Volume  VI,  Number  14;  Jan.  27,  1900. 

Wheeler,  Porter  County,  Indiana,  ) 

January  16,  1900.  ) 

Friend  Dowie: — I  hardly  know  how  to  convey  to  you  the  information 
I  desire.  However,  I  will  try. 

I  am  laying  claim  to  nearly  four-score  years;  hand  trembling,  eyesight 
failing,  memory  good. 

I  have  been  acquainted  with  that  doleful  disease,  Masonry,  all  my 

life. 

It  was  my  father,  with  a  company  of  soldiers,  who  took  Miller  from  the 
Masons  at  the  time  they  kidnaped  Morgan.  The  Masons  brandished  a 
sword  over  my  father’s  head  with  the  words,  “G —  d —  you,  we  have  a  great 
mind  to  Morganize  you  !” 

We  did  not  expect  to  see  our  father  alive  in  the  morning,  but  God  pre¬ 
served  him. 

The  man  who  had  Morgan  in  charge  was  a  saloonkeeper  and  one  of 
the  high  Masons  of  New  York. 

We  soon  left  the  State  of  New  York  and  located  in  Loraine  County, 
Ohio. 

Soon  after  our  location  the  son  of  the  old  man  who  had  Morgan  in 
charge  located  on  the  farm  adjoining  ours. 

Soon  after  the  son’s  location  the  old  man,  the  kidnaper,  came  to  his 
son’s  house,  having  separated  from  his  wife  and  having  lost  all  of  his 
property. 


186  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


When  he  arrived  in  Ohio  he  was  the  poorest  beggar  I  ever  saw.  The 
son  looked  upon  the  old  man  and  exclaimed,  “  0  my  God,  father,  what  is 
the  matter  with  you  ?” 

SIGNIFICANT  CONFESSION  OF  ONE  OF  THE  MURDERERS. 

The  old  man  answered,  “  Ever  since  I  had  Morgan  in  charge  and 
assisted  in  putting  him  to  death,  there  have  been  spirits  within  and  without 
tormenting  me.” 

I  was  well  acquainted  with  the  old  kidnaper.  He  seemed  to  be  dazed, 
strolling  about  the  fields,  and  very  seldom  seen  in  the  streets. 

The  old  man  went  about  twelve  miles  west  to  see  a  distant  relative, 
and  there  died. 

Word  was  sent  to  his  son  to  come  for  him. 

A  wagon  was  provided  and  some  friends  accompanied  the  son.  Reach¬ 
ing  their  destination  they  put  the  old  man’s  body  in  the  wagon  and  started 
for  the  son’s  home. 

When  within  eighty  rods  of  his  son’s  house,  a  halt  was  called  by  the 
son,  who  said :  “  I  do  not  want  the  old  man  in  my  house  tonight.” 

There  was  a  railroad  depot  there  and  a  handcar  house. 

The  son  called  out,  “  Where  is  the  foreman  of  the  track  ?” 

Foreman — “He  is  here.” 

Son — “  Will  you  open  the  handcar  house  and  let  me  put  the  old  man  in 
there  tonight?” 

Foreman — “  Yes.” 

I  stood  looking  on,  and  wondered. 

Within  eighty  rods  of  the  son’s  house,  and  yet  he  put  the  corpse  into  a 
handcar  house ! 

They  carried  the  casket  in  and  set  it  down  on  a  pile  of  shovels,  crow¬ 
bars,  spike  hammers,  etc.,  and  locked  the  car  house. 

In  the  morning  the  men  went  to  their  track  work,  leaving  the  car  house 
open,  so  when  they  got  ready  they  could  remove  the  body  to  the 
grave. 

SINS  OF  THE  FATHER  VISITED  UPON  THE  CHILDREN. 

The  old  man’s  son  died  five  or  six  years  ago. 

The  grandchildren  now  live  here  near  me,  and  I  must  say  that  vexa¬ 
tions  and  disappointments  have  followed  them  all  the  days  of  their 
lives. 

For  the  space  of  ninety  days  after  the  death  of  Morgan,  Mrs.  Morgan 
made  my  father’s  house  her  home;  then  returned  to  Batavia,  and  I  have  no 
further  account  of  her. 

Sixty-two  years  ago  I  gave  my  name  to  the  M.  E.  Church,  and  five 
years  ago  I  ordered  my  name  stricken  from  the  list.  My  son  ordered  like¬ 
wise. 

Our  withdrawal  produced  quite  a  flutter  amongst  the  Masons  and  Odd 
Fellows. 

Several  committees  were  appointed  to  request  our  return,  but  it  pro¬ 
duced  no  effect. 

We  stand  by  ourselves. 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  1 87 

They  have  just  closed  a  two  weeks’  revival  here  in  our  village,  where 
there  are  eighty  members,  and  their  daily  attendance  during  the  revival 
averaged  eighteen  to  twenty  persons,  worldly  people  and  all. 

LOSS  OF  POWER  IN  THE  MASONIC- METHODIST  CHURCH. 

There  has  not  been  a  convert  here  in  our  M.  E.  Church  in  twenty-five 
years. 

Some  time  ago  a  quarterly  meeting  came  in  order.  A  minister  from 
Chicago  was  invited  and  came  down,  and  also  one  from  Crown  Point. 

Three  ministers  were  present  Saturday  afternoon  and  I  made  up  the 
congregation. 

I  was  the  only  hearer  present. 

I  have  heart  disease  and  my  children  fear  my  departure. 

Some  days  I  feel  pretty  well  and  then  quite  off  again. 

I  did  greatly  desire  to  come  to  Chicago  on  some  Sabbath  Day  and  hear 
you  preach. 

I  should  much  love  to  attend  your  meetings  and  hear  the  testimonies, 
and  I  might  have  a  word  to  say. 

I  have  prayed  that  God  would  endow  some  one  with  sufficient  courage 
to  expose  the  corruption  of  the  M.  E.  Church  and  the  Secret  Orders. 

Our  people  are  all  swallowed  up  in  the  Secret  Orders.  So  bold  are  they 
as  to  say  that  Jesus  Christ  was  a  Mason. 

I  am  so  glad  you  have  taken  it  in  hand  to  reveal  them  to  the  people. 

My  son  says  the  people  are  terribly  excited  here  over  the  exposition  of 
their  orders. 

God  bless  you  and  all  yours  for  time  and  eternity. 

How  can  people  have  faith  in  God  and  at  the  same  time  set  aside  heal¬ 
ing? 

In  my  lifetime  I  have  seen  much  of  Divine  Healing. 

You  will  please  receive  this  as  from  the  hand  of  your  friend,  who  is 
nearly  eighty  years  old. 

My  son  says  we  must  not  put  this  letter  in  the  office  here,  for  seeing  it 
addressed  to  you,  they  would  destroy  it. 

Please  collect  all  the  mistakes  together  and  charge  them  to  eighty 
years>  Asa  Curtiss. 

STORY  OF  MORGAN’S  ABDUCTION  AND  MURDER  BY 

FREEMASONS. 

Extract  from  Report  of  Meeting  held  in  Central  Zion  Tabernacle,  Lord’s  Day  Morning, 

January  28,  1900.  Leaves  of  Healing,  Volume  VI,  Number  15;  February  3,  1900. 

Asa  Curtiss,  Wheeler,  Porter  County,  Indiana,  said:  “  I  am  the  one  who 
wrote  Dr.  Dowie  that  letter  which  appeared  in  the  last  issue  of  Leaves  of 
Healing.  I  wrote  it  from  experience,  and  what  my  father  told  me. 

“  It  wounds  my  soul  to  be  called  to  testify  against  the  sins  of  so-called 
Christian  Churches.  I  would  gladly  cut  my  testimony  short  by  saying, 
‘Peace  on  earth,  good  will  to  men  begin  and  never  end.  ’ 

«  But  I  am  called  upon  to  speak  of  events  which  took  place  at  Batavia 
in  the  days  when  Morgan  was  put  to  death,  and  the  whole  country  was  in 
commotion.  We  heard  nothing  but  the  talk  of  Morgan  and  the  Masons 


1 88  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

who  put  him  to  death.  Yet  the  common  people  doubted  that  cruelty  of 
that  character  could  be  so  rank  as  it  proved  to  be.  Therefore  they  were 
not  sufficiently  on  their  guard  to  be  Morgan’s  friends  as  ihey  ought  to  have 

been  in  time  of  need. 

“  I  have  the  story  from  my  father  and  from  the  lips  of  the  son  of  a  man 
who  was  intimately  connected  with  the  whole  affair. 

MORGAN  ABDUCTED  BY  HYPOCRITICAL  LIARS. 

“The  old  man  went  into  the  jail  at  Canandaigua,  and  said  to  Morgan,  ‘I 
am  your  friend;  put  yourself  under  my  protection,  and  you  are  safe.  Say 
nothing.’  That  was  in  order  to  get  Morgan  out  of  prison  and  keep  him  quiet, 
and  to  say  nothing  until  they  put  him  in  the  coach.  1  We  are  your  friends,’ 
they  said,  ‘  and  if  you  make  any  disturbance,  the  Masons  will  discover  your 
departure  from  here,  and  there  will  be  trouble.’ 

“  Morgan  was  conducted  into  the  coach.  The  old  man  who  had  him 
in  charge  had  been  driven  away.  Morgan’s  language  was:  ‘  If  you  are  my 
friend,  then  I  am  safe;  but  if  you  are  my.  enemy,  my  doom  is  sealed.’  The 
man  proved  to  be  his  enemy,  and  his  doom  was  sealed. 

“Shortly  after,  they  took  an  assistant  of  Morgan’s  by  the  name  of 
Miller.  They  arrested  him  for  the  alleged  stealing  of  some  small  article, 
and  put  him  in  jail.  They  brought  him  put  in  the  night  with  the  same  pre¬ 
tensions  that  they  had  Morgan,  but  Miller, -being  posted  somewhat  by  this 
time,  was  too  sharp  to  be  quiet.  He  shouted,  ‘  I  am  Miller.’ 

“  My  father,  with  a  company  of  soldiers,  made  a  rush  into  the  crowd  at 
the  jail  door,  seized  Miller  by  the  collar,  took  him  away,  and  gave  him  over 
to  Anti-Masonic  friends. 

“The  Masons,  with  a  sword  o^er  my  father’s  head,  said,  ‘  G —  d —  you, 
we  have  a  notion  to  Morganize  you  here  tonight!’  We  did  not  expect  to 
see  our  father  alive  in  the  morning.  -  :  ■ 

“After  this  we  emigrated  from  the  State  of  New  York  to  Ohio.” 

Mr.  Curtiss  then  related  the  incident  of  the  old  man’s  death  and  strange 
burial,  as  published  in  a  letter  from  him  in  Leaves  of  Healing,  Volume 
VI,  Number  14,  pages  423  and  424. 

He  then  continued:  “The  son  told  my  father  and  myself  that  from 
the  time  he  came  to  years  of  judgment  their  house  was  in  a  perfect  turmoil ; 
that  they  could  not  dwell  in  one  house,  and  he  was  turned  away  from  home. 
He  told  me  of  the  old  man’s  conduct  to  his  family. 

“  The  old  gentleman  was  separated  from  his  wife,  and  lost  every  cent  of 
his  property. 

“  Hasten,  Lord,  that  happy  day 
When  beneath  Thy  gentle  ray 
The  Gospel  of  the  Word  shall  sway 
And  reign  triumphantly.” 


Extract  from  Report  of  Praise  and  Testimony  Meeting  held  in  Zion  Home,  Saturday  Even¬ 
ing,  January  27,  1900.  Leaves  of  Healing,  Volume  VI,  Number  15;  February  3,  1900. 

Asa  Curtiss,  Wheeler,  Indiana,  gave  his  testimony  in  detail  concerning 
the  murder  of  Morgan,  wrho  was  kidnaped  by  the  Masons,  confirming  the 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY  l8g 

letter  written  by  him  to  the  General  Overseer,  and  published  in  last  week’s 
issue  in  the  Editorial  Notes. 


ROCHESTER  UNION  AND  ADVERTISER’S  ACCOUNT  OF 

THE  MURDER  OF  MORGAN. 

As  indicative  of  the  great  interest  in  the  case  of  William 
Morgan  still  existing  in  the  minds  of  the  people,  we  publish 
the  following  from  the  Rochester  (New  York)  Union  and  Ad¬ 
vertiser  of  January  22,  1900.  It  is  an  extract  from  a  long  article 
with  a  sensational  heading,  illustrated  by  a  likeness  of  the  late 
William  Morgan.  (It  is  from  this  likeness  that  the  one  which  we 
publish  in  this  book  is  taken.)  It  will  be  noticed  that  this  paper, 
while  not  antimasonic  in  its  principles,  freely  admits  the 
murder  of  Capt.  William  Morgan  by  Freemasons. 

In  September,  1826,  there  occurred  an  event  in  Western  New  York, 
with  Rochester  its  center,  which  ramified  and  shook  the  whole  continent 
and  attracted  attention  far  beyond— the  abduction  of  William  Morgan,  a 
former  resident  of  this  city,  from  the  bosom  of  his  family  in  Batavia  and 
the  jail  in  Canandaigua,  and  his  subsequent  taking  off  for  betrayal  of  the 
secrets  of  Masonry,  the  prime  movers  and  chief  actors  in  which  combina¬ 
tion  of  drama  and  tragedy  were  citizens  and  residents  here. 

But  to  return  to  William  Morgan.  He  was  imprisoned  by  the  con¬ 
spirators,  with,  of  course,  the  assent  of  the  commandant,  and  without  law¬ 
ful  authority,  in  one  of  the  casemates  of  Fort  Niagara,  awaiting  the  advent 
of  a  representation  of  the  fraternity  in  Canada  to  come  and  take  him  away 
and  dispose  of  him. 

Matters  were  getting  too  warm  for  further  delay,  and  he  was  accord¬ 
ingly  disposed  of  here. 

JOHN  WHITNEY  CONFESSES  HIS  COMPLICITY  IN  MURDER  OF  MORGAN. 

One  of  the  conspirators,  John  Whitney,  of  Rochester,  according  to 
Thurlow  Weed,  long  after  all  was  over,  confessed  to  him  in  the  presence  of 
Simeon  B.  Jewett,  of  Clarkson  Four  Corners,  a  great  Mason  and  Democrat, 
that  at  shut  of  day  he,  Whitney,  and  three  others,  took  Morgan  into  a  boat, 
with  ropes,  weights,  etc.,  prepared;  rowed  out  with  him  on  Lake  Ontario, j 
and  threw  him  overboard. 

Months  afterward,  the  body,  having  become  detached  from  the  ropes 
and  weights  by  action  of  the  water,  floated  ashore  in  Niagara  County,  and 
was  identified  as  that  of  William  Morgan.  It  was  claimed  by  the  conspira¬ 
tors  and  their  friends  that  it  was  not  the  body  of  Morgan,  but  of  one  Tim¬ 
othy  Monroe,  a  Canadian,  who  had  been  lost  in  Lake  Ontario. 

•  ••••••••• 

The  conspirators  admitted  the  abduction,  and  several  of  them,  indicted 
in  Ontario  County,  upon  arraignment  for  trial  pleaded  guilty  and  were  sen¬ 
tenced  to  various  terms  of  imprisonment. 


190  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


But  with  the  exception  of  John  Whitney,  Thurlow  Weed  being  witness 
as  to  him,  they  never  owned  up  to  the  murder. 


REV.  CHARLES  G.  FINNEY’S  ACCOUNT  OF  THE  MURDER 

OF  MORGAN. 

Extract  from  “The  Character,  Claims  and  Practical  Workings  of  Freemasonry,”  by  Rev. 

Charles  G.  Finney,  Late  President  of  Oberlin  College. 

CHAPTER  II.  A  SCRAP  OF  HISTORY. 

In  this  number  I  must  remind  readers  of  some  facts  that  occurred  about 
forty  years  ago;  which,  as  matters  of  history,  though  then  well-known  to 
thousands,  are  probably  now  unknown  to  the  great  majority  of  our  citi¬ 
zens. 

Elderly  men  and  women,  especially  in  the  Northern  States,  will  almost 
universally  remember  the  murder  of  William  Morgan  by  Freemasons,  and 
many  facts  connected  with  that  terrible  tragedy.  But,  as  much  pains  have 
been  taken  by  Freemasons  to  rid  the  world  of  the  books  and  pamphlets, 
and  every  vestige  of  writing  relating  to  that  subject,  by  far  the  larger  num¬ 
ber  of  young  people  seem  to  be  entirely  ignorant  that  such  facts  ever 
occurred.  I  will  state  them  as  briefly  as  possible. 

MORGAN’S  EXPOSURE  OF  FREEMASONRY. 

About  forty  years  ago,  an  estimable  man  by  the  name  of  William  Mor¬ 
gan,  then  residing  in  Batavia,  New  York,  being  a  Freemason,  after  much 
reflection,  made  up  his  mind  that  it  was  his  duty  to  publish  Freemasonry 
to  the  world. 

He  regarded  it  as  highly  injurious  to  the  cause  of  Christ,  and  as  emi¬ 
nently  dangerous  to  the  government  of  our  country,  and  I  suppose  was 
aware,  as  Masons  generally  were  at  that  time,  that  nearly  all  the  civil  offices 
in  the  country  were  in  the  hands  of  Freemasons;  and  that  the  press  was 
completely  under  their  control,  and  almost  altogether  in  their  hands. 

Masons  at  that  time  boasted  that  all  the  civil  offices  in  the  country  were 
in  their  hands.  I  believe  that  all  the  civil  offices  in  the  county  where  I 
resided,  while  I  belonged  to  them,  were  in  their  hands.  I  do  not  recollect 
a  magistrate,  or  a  constable,  or  sheriff  in  that  county  that  was  not  at  that 
time  a  Freemason. 

A  publisher  by  the  name  of  Miller,  also  residing  in  Batavia,  agreed  to 
publish  what  Mr.  Morgan  would  write.  This,  coming  to  be  known  to  Free¬ 
masons,  led  them  to  conspire  for  his  destruction. 

This,  as  we  shall  see,  was  only  in  accordance  with  their  oaths.  By 
their  oaths  they  were  bound  to  seek  his  destruction,  and  to  execute  upon 
him  the  penalty  of  those  oaths. 

ABDUCTION  OF  MORGAN. 

They  kidnaped  Morgan  and  for  a  time  concealed  him  in  the  magazine 
of  the  United  States  Fort — Fort  Niagara,  at  the  mouth  of  Niagara  River, 
where  it  empties  into  Lake  Ontario.  They  kept  him  there  until  they  could 
arrange  to  dispatch  him. 


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In  the  meantime,  the  greatest  efforts  were  made  to  discover  his  where¬ 
abouts,  and  what  the  Masons  had  done  with  him. 

Strong  suspicions  came  finally  to  be  entertained  that  he  was  confined 
in  that  Fort;  and  the  Masons,  finding  that  those  suspicions  were  abroad, 
hastened  his  death.  Two  or  three  have  since,  upon  their  deathbed,  con¬ 
fessed  their  part  in  the  transaction. 

They  drowned  him  in  the  Niagara  River. 

The  account  of  the  manner  in  which  this  was  done  will  be  found  in  a 
book  published  by  Elder  Stearns,  a  Baptist  Elder. 

The  book  is  entitled  “Stearns  on  Masonry.”  It  contains  the  deathbed 
confession  of  one  of  the  murderers  of  William  Morgan. 

On  page  31 1  of  that  work  you  will  find  that  confession.  But  as  many 
of  my  readers  have  not  access  to  that  work,  I  take  the  liberty  to  quote  it 
entire,  as  follows: 

CONFESSION. 


THE  MURDER  OF  WILLIAM  MORGAN,  CONFESSED  BY  THE  MAN  WHO, 
WITH  HIS  OWN  HANDS,  PUSHED  HIM  OUT  OF  THE  BOAT 

INTO  NIAGARA  RIVER! 


“The  following  account  of  that  tragical  scene  is  taken  from  a  pamphlet 
entitled,  ‘Confession  of  the  Murder  of  William  Morgan,  as  taken  down  by 
Dr.  John  L.  Emery,  of  Racine  County,  Wisconsin,  in  the  Summer  of  1848, 
and  now  (1849)  first  given  to  the  public.’ 

“  This  ‘  Confession  ’  was  taken  down  as  related  by  Henry  L.  Valance, 
who  acknowledges  himself  to  have  been  one  of  the  three  who  were  selected 
to  make  a  final  disposition  of  the  ill-fated  victim  of  Masonic  vengeance. 

“This  confession,  it  seems,  was  made  to  his  physicians,  and  in  view  of 
his  approaching  dissolution,  and  published  after  his  decease. 

HAUNTING  REMORSE  OF  ONE  OF  MORGAN’S  MURDERER’S. 

“After  committing  that  horrid  deed  he  was,  as  might  well  be  expected, 
an  unhappy  man,  by  day  and  by  night.  He  was  much  like  Cain — 4  a  fugi¬ 
tive  and  a  vagabond.’ 

“  To  use  his  own  words,  ‘  Go  where  I  would,  or  do  what  I  would,  it  was 
impossible  for  me  to  throw  off  the  consciousness  of  crime.  If  the  mark  of 
Cain  was  not  upon  me,  the  curse  of  the  first  murderer  was — the  blood-stain 
was  upon  my  hands  and  could  not  be  washed  out.’ 

“He  therefore  commences  his  confession  thus:  ‘My  last  hour  is 
approaching;  and  as  the  things  of  this  world  fade  from  my  mental  sight,  I 
feel  the  necessity  of  making,  as  far  as  in  my  power  lies,  that  atonement 
which  every  violator  of  the  great  law  of  right  owes  to  his  fellowmen.’ 

“In  this  violation  of  law,  he  says,  ‘I  allude  to  the  abduction  and  mur¬ 
der  of  the  ill-fated  William  Morgan.’ 

“He  proceeds  with  an  interesting  narrative  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
fraternity  in  reference  to  Morgan,  while  he  was  incarcerated  in  the  maga¬ 
zine  of  Fort  Niagara. 


192  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


“  I  have  room  for  a  few  extracts  only,  showing  the  final  disposition  of 
their  alleged  criminal. 

“Many  consultations  were  held,  ‘many  plans  proposed  and  discussed, 
and  rejected.’ 

THE  MURDERERS  CHOSEN  BY  LOT. 

“At  length,  being  driven  to  the  necessity  of  doing  something  immedi¬ 
ately  for  fear  of  being  exposed,  it  was  resolved  in  a  council  of  eight,  that 
he  must  die:  must  be  consigned  to  a  ‘confinement  from  which  there  is  no 
possibility  of  escape — the  grave.’ 

“Three  of  their  number  were  to  be  selected  by  ballot  to  execute  the 
deed.  ‘Eight  pieces  of  paper  were  procured,  five  of  which  were  to  remain 
blank,  while  the  letter  D  was  written  on  the  others.  These  pieces  of  paper 
were  placed  in  a  large  box,  from  which  each  man  was  to  draw  one  at  the 
same  moment. 

“‘After  drawing  we  were  all  to  separate,  without  looking  at  the  paper 
that  each  held  in  his  hand. 

“‘So  soon  as  we  had  arrived  at  certain  distances  from  the  place  of 
rendezvous,  the  tickets  were  to  be  examined,  and  those  who  held  blanks 
were  to  return  instantly  to  their  homes;  and  those  who  should  hold  marked 
tickets  were  to  proceed  to  the  Fort  at  midnight,  and  there  put  Morgan  to 
death,  in  such  a  manner  as  should  seem  to  themselves  most  fitting.’ 

“  Mr.  Valance  was  one  of  the  three  who  drew  the  ballots  on  which  was 
the  signal  letter.  He  returned  to  the  Fort,  where  he  was  joined  by  his  two 
companions,  who  had  drawn  the  death  tickets. 

“Arrangements  were  made  immediately  for  executing  the  sentence 
passed  upon  their  prisoner,  which  was  to  sink  him  in  the  river  with  weights ; 
in  hope,  says  Mr.  Valance,  ‘that  he  and  our  crime  alike  would  thus  be 
buried  beneath  the  waves.’ 

“  His  part  was  to  proceed  to  the  magazine  where  Morgan  was  confined, 
and  announce  to  him  his  fate — theirs  was  to  procure  a  boat  and  weights 
with  which  to  sink  him. 

MORGAN  PLEADS  FOR  SAKE  OF  HIS  FAMILY. 

“  Morgan,  on  being  informed  of  their  proceedings  against  him,  demanded 
by  what  authority  they  had  condemned  him,  and  who  were  his  judges. 

“  ‘  He  commenced  wringing  his  hands,  and  talking  of  his  wife  and  chil¬ 
dren,  the  recollections  of  whom,  in  that  awful  hour,  terribly  affected  him. 
His  wife,  he  said,  was  young  and  inexperienced,  and  his  children  were  but 
infants;  what  would  become  of  them  were  he  cut  off,  and  they  even  igno¬ 
rant  of  his  fate?’ 

“What  husband  and  father  would  not  be  ‘terribly  affected’  under  such 
circumstances — to  be  cut  off  from  among  the  living  in  this  inhuman  man¬ 
ner? 

“Mr.  V.’s  comrades  returned,  and  informed  him  that  they  had  procured 
the  boat  and  weights,  and  that  all  things  were  in  readiness  on  their  part. 

“Morgan  was  told  that  all  his  remonstrances  were  idle;  that  die  he 
must,  and  that  soon,  even  before  the  morning  light. 

“The  feelings  of  the  husband  and  father  were  still  strong  within  him, 
and  he  continued  to  plead  on  behalf  of  his  family. 


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“  They  gave  him  one-half  hour  to  prepare  for  his  ‘  inevitable  fate.’ 

“  They  retired  from  the  magazine  and  left  him.  ‘  How  Morgan  passed 
that  time,’  says  Mr.  Valance,  ‘T  cannot  tell,  but  everything  was  quiet  as  the 
tomb  within.  ’ 

“At  the  expiration  of  the  alloted  time  they  entered  the  magazine,  laid 
hold  of  their  victim,  ‘bound  his  hands  behind  him,  and  placed  a  gag  in  his 
mouth.’  They  then  led  him  forth  to  execution. 

“  *  A  short  time,’  says  this  murderer,  ‘  brought  us  to  the  boat,  and  we  all 
entered  it— Morgan  being  placed  in  the  bow  with  myself  alongside  of  him. 
My  comrades  took  the  oars,  and  the  boat  was  rapidly  forced  out  into  the 
river. 

‘“The  night  was  pitch  dark;  we  could  scarcely  see  a  yard  before  us, 
and  therefore  was  the  time  admirably  adapted  to  our  hellish  purpose.’ 

“Having  reached  a  proper  distance  from  the  shore,  the  oarsmen  ceased 
their  labors. 

THE  MURDER. 

“The  weights  were  all  secured  together  by  a  strong  cord,  and  another 
cord  of  equal  strength,  and  of  several  yards  in  length,  proceeded  from 
that. 

“  *  This  cord,’  says  Mr.  V.,  *  I  took  in  my  hand  [did  not  that  hand 
tremble?]  and  fastened  it  around  the  body  of  Morgan,  just  above  his  hips, 
using  all  my  skill  to  make  it  fast,  so  that  it  would  hold.  Then,  in  a  whisper, 
I  bade  the  unhappy  man  to  stand  up,  and  after  a  momentary  hesitation  he 
complied  with  my  order.  He  stood  close  to  the  head  of  the  boat,  and  there 
was  just  length  enough  of  rope  from  his  person  to  the  weights  to  prevent 
any  strain,  while  he  was  standing. 

“  ‘I  then  requested  one  of  my  associates  to  assist  me  in  lifting  the 
weights  from  the  bottom  to  the  side  of  the  boat,  while  the  others  steadied  her 
from  the  stern.  This  was  done,  and,  as  Morgan  was  standing  with  his  back 
toward  me,  I  approached  him,  and  gave  him  a  strong  push  with  both  my 
hands,  which  were  placed  on  the  middle  of  his  back.  He  fell  forward, 
carrying  the  weights  with  him,  and  the  waters  closed  over  the  mass.  We 
remained  quiet  for  two  or  three  minutes,  when  my  companions,  without 
saying  a  word,  resumed  their  places,  and  rowed  the  boat  to  the  place  from 
which  they  had  taken  it.’  ” 

They  also  kidnaped  Mr.  Miller,  the  publisher;  but  the  citizens  of  Bata¬ 
via,  finding  it  out,  pursued  the  kidnapers,  and  finally  rescued  him. 

The  courts  of  justice  found  themselves  entirely  unable  to  make  any 
headway  against  the  widespread  conspiracy  that  was  formed  among  Masons 
in  respect  to  this  matter. 

THE  CRIMINALS  NOT  PUNISHED. 

These  are  matters  of  record.  It  was  found  that  they  could  do  nothing 
with  the  courts,  with  the  sheriffs,  with  the  witnesses,  or  with  the  jurors;  and 
all  their  efforts  were  for  a  time  entirely  impotent.  Indeed,  they  never  were 
able  to  prove  the  murder  of  Morgan,  and  bring  it  home  to  the  individuals 
who  perpetrated  it. 

But  Mr.  Morgan  had  published  Freemasonry  to  the  world.  The  great¬ 
est  pains  were  taken  by  Masons  to  cover  up  the  transaction,  and  as  far  as 


194  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

possible  to  deceive  the  public  in  regard  to  the  fact  that  Mr.  Morgan  had 
published  Masonry  as  it  really  was. 

Masons  themselves,  as  is  affirmed  by  the  very  best  authority,  published 
two  spurious  editions  of  Morgan’s  book,  and  circulated  them  as  the  true 
edition  which  Morgan  had  published.  These  editions  were  designed  to 
deceive  Masons  who  had  never  seen  Morgan’s  edition,  and  thus  to  enable 
them  to  say  that  it  was  not  a  true  revelation  of  Masonry. 

In  consequence  of  the  publication  of  Morgan  s  book,  and  the  revela¬ 
tions  that  were  made  in  regard  to  the  kidnaping  and  murdering  of  Mr. 
Morgan,  great  numbers  of  Masons  were  led  to  consider  the  subject  more 
fully  than  they  had  done;  and  the  conscientious  among  them  almost  uni¬ 
versally  renounced  Masonry  altogether. 

I  believe  that  about  two  thousand  lodges,  as  a  consequence  of  these 

revelations,  were  suspended. 

The  ex-President  of  a  Western  College,  who  is  himself  a  Freemason, 
has  recently  published  some  very  important  information  on  the  subject, 
though  he  justifies  Masonry. 

THOUSANDS  OF  EX-MASONS  MEET  TO  PUBLISH  SECRETS. 

He  says  that,  out  of  a  little  more  than  fifty  thousand  Masons  in  the 
United  States  at  that  time,  forty-five  thousand  turned  their  backs  upon  the 
lodge  to  enter  the  lodge  no  more. 

Conventions  were  called  of  Masons  that  were  disposed  to  renounce  it. 
One  was  held  at  Le  Roy,  another  at  Philadelphia,  and  others  at  other 

places,  I  do  not  now  remember  where. 

The  men  composing  these  conventions  made  public  confession  of  their 

relation  to  the  institution,  and  publicly  renounced  it. 

At  one  of  these  large  conventions  they  appointed  a  committee  to 
superintend  the  publication  of  Masonry  in  all  its  degrees.  This  committee 
was  composed  of  men  of  first-rate  character,  and  men  quite  generally 
known  to  the  public. 

Elder  Bernard,  a  Baptist  Elder  in  good  standing,  was  one  of  this  com¬ 
mittee;  and  he,  with  the  assitance  of  his  brethren  who  had  been  appointed 
to  this  work,  obtained  an  accurate  version  of  some  forty-eight  degrees. 

He  published  also  the  proceedings  of  those  conventions,  and  much  con¬ 
cerning  the  efforts  that  were  made  by  the  courts  to  search  the  matter  to  the 
bottom,  and  also  several  speeches  that  were  made  by  prominent  men  in  the 
State  of  New  York. 

This  work  was  entitled  “  Light  on  Masonry.” 

In  this  work  any  person  who  is  disposed  may  get  a  very  correct  view  of 
what  Freemasonry  really  is. 

This  and  sundry  other  reliable  works  on  Fremasonry  may  be  had  at 
Godrich’s,  and  Fitch  &  Fairchild’s  bookstores,  in  Oberlin. 

In  saying  this,  it  is  proper  to  add  that  I  have  no  direct  or  indirect 
pecuniary  interest  in  the  sale  of  those  or  of  any  book  on  Freemasonry  what 
ever,  nor  shall  I  have  in  the  sale  of  this  which  I  am  now  preparing  for  the 
press.  Freemasons  shall  not  with  truth  accuse  me  of  self-interest  in  expos¬ 
ing  their  institution. 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  195 

Before  the  publication  of  “  Bernard’s  Light  on  Masonry,”  great  pains 
were  taken  to  secure  the  most  accurate  knowledge  of  the  degrees  published 

by  the  committee,  as  the  reader  of  that  work  will  see,  if  he  reads  the  book 
through. 

An  account  of  these  matters  will  be  found  in  “  Light  on  Masonry,”  to 
which  I  have  referred. 

MASONRY  ENTRENCHED  IN  THE  INNER  PLACES  OF  SOCIETY  AND 

GOVERNMENT. 

In  the  Northern  or  non-slaveholding  States,  Masonry  was  almost  uni¬ 
versally  renounced  at  that  time. 

But  it  was  round  that  it  had  taken  so  deep  a  root  that  in  all  New 
England  there  was  scarcely  a  newspaper  in  which  the  death  of  William 
Morgan,  and  the  circumstances  connected  therewith,  could  be  published. 
This  w  as  so  generally  true  throughout  all  the  North  that  newspapers  had  to 
be  everywhere  established  for  the  purpose  of  making  the  disclosures  that 
were  necessary  in  regard  to  its  true  character  and  tendency. 

The  same  game  is  being  played  over  again  at  the  present  day.  The 
Cynosure ,  the  new  antimasonic  paper  published  at  Chicago,  is  constantly 
intercepted  on  its  way  to  subscribers.  Four  of  its  first  six  numbers  failed 

to  reach  me,  and  now  in  December,  1868,  I  have  received  no  number  later 
than  the  sixth. 

The  editor  informs  me  that  the  numbers  are  constantly  intercepted. 
The  public  will  be  forced  to  learn  what  a  lawless  and  hideous  institution 
F reemasonry  is. 

But  at  present  I  refrain  from  saying  more  on  this  point. 

It  was  found  that  Masonry  so  completely  baffled  the  courts  of  law,  and 
obstructed  the  course  of  justice,  that  it  was  forced  into  politics;  and  for  a 
time  the  antimasonic  sentiment  of  the  Northern  States  carried  all  before  it. 

Almost  all  Masons  became  ashamed  of  it,  felt  themselves  disgraced  by 
having  any  connection  with  it,  and  publicly  renounced  it.  If  they  did  not 
publish  any  renunciation,  they  suspended  their  lodges,  had  no  more  to  do 
with  it,  and  did  not  pretend  to  deny  that  Masonry  had  been  published. 

I  should  just  as  soon  expect  slavery  to  be  reestablished  in  this  country, 
and  become  more  popular  than  ever  before — to  take  possession  of  the 
Government  and  of  all  the  civil  offices,  and  to  grow  bold,  impudent,  and 

defiant— as  I  should  have  expected  that  Masonry  would  achieve  what  it 
has. 

When  the  subject  of  Freemasonry  was  first  forced  upon  our  churches 
in  Oberlin  for  discussion  and  action,  I  cannot  express  the  astonishment, 
grief  and  indignation  that  I  felt  on  hearing  professed  Christian  Freemasons 
deny  either  expressly  or  by  irresistible  implication  that  Morgan  and  others 
had  truly  revealed  the  secrets  of  Freemasonry. 

But  a  few  years  ago  such  denial  would  have  ruined  the  character  of  any 
intelligent  man,  not  to  say  of  a  professed  Christian. 

But  I  must  say,  also,  that  Masonry  itself  has  its  literature.  Many  Bom¬ 
bastic  and  spread-eagle  books  have  been  published  in  its  favor. 

They  never  attempt  to  justify  it  as  it  is  revealed  in  “  Light  on  Masonry,” 
nor  reply  by  argument  to  the  attacks  that  have  been  so  successfully  made 


196  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 

upon  it;  neither  have  they  pretended  to  reveal  its  secrets.  But  they  have 
eulogized  it  in  a  manner  that  is  utterly  nauseating  to  those  who  understand 

what  it  really  is.  ,  ,  Q  „ 

But  these  books  have  been  circulated  among  the  young,  and  have  no 

doubt  led  thousands  and  scores  of  thousands  of  young  men  into  the  Masonic 
ranks,  who,  but  for  these  miserable  productions,  would  never  have  thought 

of  taking  such  a  step. 


HON  THURLOW  WEED’S  ACCOUNT  OF  THE  MURDER  OF 

MORGAN. 

A  Pamphlet  entitled  “  The  Facts  Stated.  Hon.  Thurlow  Weed  on  the  Morgan  Abduction  ” 

The  following  is  taken  from  a  little  phamphlet  entitled, 

“The  Facts  Stated,”  by  Hon.  Thurlow  Weed: 

New  York,  September  9,  1882. 

Dear  Sir  : — I  have  delayed  the  answer  to  your  letter  inviting  me  to 
attend  the  unveiling  of  the  monument  of  Capt.  William  Morgan,  in  t  e 
hope  that  I  should  be  able  to  be  present  on  that  occasion. 

Impaired  vision,  added  to  other  infirmities,  prevents  my  going  far 

fromhoniccasion  ,g  one  that  reCalls  an  event  of  startling  interest,  arousing 
deep  popular  feeling,  first  at  Batavia,  Le  Roy,  Canandaigua  and  Rochester, 

then  pervading  our  own  and  other  States.  .  .  ,  ,  unn 

After  reading  the  proceedings  of  a  meeting  at  Batavia  with  the  Hon 
David  E.  Evans  as  presiding  officer,  I  wrote  a  six-line  paragrag  °r 
Rochester  Telegraph ,  in  which  I  stated  that  a  citizen  of  Batavia  had  been 
spirited  away  from  his  home  and  family,  and  that,  aftera  mysterious  absence 
of  several  days,  a  village  meeting  had  been  held  and  a  committee  of  citizens 
appointed  to  investigate  the  matter;  adding  that  as  it  was  known  *^1 
Freemasons  were  concerned  in  this  abduction,  it  behooved  the  fraternity 
whose  good  name  was  suffering  to  take  the  laboring  oar  in  restoring  the 

man  to  his  liberty. 

'  MASONIC  SENSITIVENESS  CONCERNING  MORGAN. 

That  paragraph  brought  dozens  of  our  most  influential  citizens,  greatly 

excited,  to  the  office,  stopping  the  paper  and  ordering  the  discontinuance 

of  their  advertisements. 

1  inquired  of  my  partner,  Robert  Martin,  what  I  had  done  to  exasperate 
so  manyU  our  friends.  He  brought  me  a  book  and  directed  my  attention 
to  an  obligation  invoking  severe  penalties  as  a  punishment  for  disclosing 
the  secrets  of  Masons,  inquiring  what  I  thought  of  a  man  who,  after  taking 
such  an  obligation,  violated  it  ? 

I  replied  that  I  did  not  know  any  punishment  too  severe  for  such 

PeriThe  discontinuance  of  the  paper  embraced  so  large  a  number  of  its 
patrons,  I  saw  that  my  brief  and,  as  I  supposed,  very  harmleSS  , 

would  ruin  the  establishment.  Unwilling  that  my  ^ 

promptly  withdrew,  leaving  the  establishment  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Martin. 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  1 97 

The  paper  was  doing  well,  and  until  that  paragraph  appeared  my 
business  future  was  all  I  could  desire. 

At  that  time  an  editor  was  wanted  at  Utica,  where  I  had  formerly 
worked  and  where  I  had  many  friends,  but  my  offer  to  go  there  was 
declined.  I  was  equally  unfortunate  in  my  application  for  editorial 
employment  at  Troy. 

The  objection  in  both  cases  was  that  I  had  been  too  busy  in  getting  up 
an  excitement  about  Morgan. 

-Meantime  the  mystery  deepened  and  public  meetings  were  held  in 
several  villages,  Rochester  included. 

In  the  meeting  at  Rochester  it  was  assumed  that  all  good  citizens  would 
unite  in  an  effort  to  vindicate  the  law. 

MASONS  BLOCK  THE  WHEELS  OF  JUSTICE. 

A  committee  was  appointed  consisting  of  seven,  three  of  whom  were 
Masons.  It  was  soon  discovered  that  the  three  Masons  went  from  the  com¬ 
mittee  to  the  lodge  rooms. 

It  was  subsequently  ascertained  that  two  of  these  gentlemen  were  con¬ 
cerned  in  the  abduction,  and  that  Morgan  had  been  committed  to  the  jail 
in  Canandaigua  on  a  false  charge  of  larceny,  and  that  he  had  been  carried 
from  thence  secretly  by  night  to  Fort  Niagara. 

The  committee  encountered  an  obstacle  in  obtaining  indictments  in  five 
of  the  six  counties  where  indictments  were  needed. 

The  sheriffs  who  summoned  the  grand  juries  were  Freemasons. 

In  four  counties  no  indictments  could  be  obtained. 

In  Ontario,  however,  the  District  Attorney,  Bowen  Whiting,  and  the 
Sheriff,  Joseph  Garlinghouse,  though  Masons,  regarded  their  obligation  to 
the  laws  of  the  State  paramount. 

Sheriff  Garlinghouse  and  District  Attorney  Whiting  discharged  their 
duties  independently  and  honestly. 

As  the  investigations  proceeded,  the  evidence  increased  that  Morgan 
had  been  unlawfully  confined  in  the  Canandaigua  jail  and  secretly  conveyed 
to  Fort  Niagara,  where  he  was  confined  in  the  magazine. 

There  was  every  reason  to  believe  that  he  was  taken  from  the  maga¬ 
zine  and  drowned  in  Lake  Ontario.  This,  however,  was  boldly  and  per¬ 
sistently  denied— denials  accompanied  by  solemn  assurances  that  Morgan 
had  been  seen  alive  in  several  places,  divided  the  public  sentiment. 

MASONS  IN  POLITICS. 

At  town  meetings,  several  months  after  Morgan’s  disappearance,  the 
question  was  carried  into  politics.  A  large  number  of  zealous  antimasons 
determined  to  make  it  a  political  issue. 

Solomon  Southwick  was  nominated  at  Le  Roy  for  Governor. 

Our  committee  firmly  resisted  all  such  efforts,  urging  all  who  were 
connected  with  us  in  an  effort  to  vindicate  the  law  to  vote  for  the  candi¬ 
dates  of  the  party  with  which  they  had  been  previously  connected. 

We  endeavored  to  induce  the  Whig  State  Convention  to  nominate 
Francis  Granger,  but,  failing  in  that,  we  gave  our  support  to  Judge  Smith 
Thompson. 


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Afterwards,  at  a  village  election  in  Rochester,  Dr.  F.  F.  Backus,  who 
had  been  Treasurer  by  a  unanimous  vote  of  the  electors  from  the  time  the 
village  charter  had  been  obtained,  was  again  the  candidate  of  both 
parties. 

No  whisper  of  opposition  was  heard  before  the  election,  or  at  the  polls, 
but  when  the  votes  were  canvassed  a  majority  appeared  in  favor  of  Dr. 
John  B.  Elwood. 

Dr.  Backus  was  an  active  and  influential  member  of  the  Morgan  inves¬ 
tigating  committee. 

That  astounding  result  produced  an  instantaneous  change. 

Political  antimasonry  from  that  moment  and  for  that  reason  became 
an  element  in  our  elections. 

It  was  alleged  and  extensively  believed  that  the  “  Morgan  Committee,” 
to  gratify  personal  aspirations,  went  voluntarily  into  politics.  Those  allega¬ 
tions  were  as  untruthful  as  they  were  unjust. 

It  was  not  until  we  ascertained  that  the  fraternity,  by  a  secret  move¬ 
ment,  was  strong  enough  to  defeat  the  candidate  of  both  political  parties 
that  we  consented  to  join  issue  with  them  politically. 

DISCOVERY  OF  MORGAN’S  BODY. 

In  the  autumn  of  1827,  the  discovery  of  the  body  of  an  unknown  man 
on  the  shore  of  Lake  Ontario,  near  the  mouth  of  Oak  Orchard  Creek,  gave 
a  new  and  absorbing  aspect  to  the  question. 

The  description  of  that  body,  as  published  by  the  Coroner  who  held  an 
inquest  over  it,  induced  a  belief  that  it  was  the  body  of  William  Morgan. 
Our  committee  decided  to  hold  another  inquest. 

Impressed  with  the  importance  and  responsibility  of  the  question,  I 
gave  public  notice  of  our  intention  and  personally  invited  several  citizens 

who  had  known  Morgan  to  be  present.  _ 

One  of  our  committee  went  to  Batavia  to  secure  the  attendance  of  Mrs. 
Morgan  and  as  many  others  who  knew  him  as  would  attend. 

The  body  had  been  interred  where  it  was  found. 

The  rude  coffin  was  opened  in  the  presence  of  between  forty  and  fifty 
persons. 

When  it  was  reached  and  before  removing  the  lid,  I  received  from 
Mrs.  Morgan,  and  others  who  knew  him  well,  descriptions  of  his  per- 

Mrs.  Morgan  described  the  color  of  his  hair,  a  scar  upon  his  foot,  and 

that  his  teeth  were  double  all  round. 

Dr.  Strong  confirmed  Mrs.  Morgan’s  statement  about  double  teeth,  one 
of  which  he  had  extracted,  while  another  was  broken,  indicating  the  posi¬ 
tion  of  the  extracted  and  broken  teeth. 

When  the  coffin  was  opened  the  body  disclosed  the  peculiarities 

described  by  Mrs.  Morgan  and  Dr.  Strong, 

This  second  inquest  and  the  examinations  of  the  body  proceeded  in 
open  day  and  in  the  presence  of  Masons  and  antimasons,  not  one  of  whom 
dissented  from  the  Coroner’s  jury,  by  which  the  body  was  unanimously 

declared  to  be  that  of  William  Morga7i. 

Mrs.  Morgan,  in  her  testimony,  failed  to  recognize  the  clothes. 


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The  body  was  taken  to  Batavia,  where  it  was  fe-interred,  no  one  as  yet 
6xptessmg  any  doubt  of  its  identity. 

DISPUTE  AS  TO  IDENTITY  OF  THE  BODY. 

Subsequently,  however,  we  were  surprised  by  a  statement  that  the  body 
Supposed  to  be  that  of  Mbrgan  was  alleged  to  be  the  body  of  Timothy 
Monroe,  who'  had  been  drowned  in  the  Niagara  River  several  weeks  before 
holding  the  first  inquest. 

This  awakened  general  and  intense  feeling.* 

Notice  was  given  that  a  third  inquest  would  be  held  at  Batavia,  where 
the  widow  and  son  of  Timothy  Monroe  appeared  as  witnessess, 

Mrs.  Monroe  swore  to  a  body  essentially  different  from  that  found  at 
Oak  Orchard  Creek.  Her  husband,  she  said,  had  black  hair  that  had  been 
recently  cut  and  stood  erect.  Her  testimony  made  her  husband  from  three 
to  four  inches  taller  than  that  of  the  body  in  question. 

She  testified  that  her  husband  had  double  teeth  all  round  and  described 
an  extracted  tooth  from  the  wrong  jaw  and  knew  nothing  of  the  broken 
tooth.  The  hair  upon  the  head  of  the  drowned  man  was  long,  silky,  and  of  a 
chestnut  color,  while  that  of  Monroe,  according  to  the  testimony  of  Mrs. 
Monroe  and  her  son,  was  short,  black,  and  close  cut. 

While  Mrs.  Monroe  failed  in  describing  the  body,  her  description  of  the 
clothing  was  minutely  accurate.  The  heel  of  his  stocking  was  described  as 
having  been  darned  with  yarn  different  in  color. 

Her  cross-examination  was  very  rigid  and  her  answers  throughout  were 
found  to  be  correct. 

The  clothing  thus  described  had  been  in  possession  of  the  Coroner, 
who  testified  that  it  had  not  been  seen  either  by  Mrs.  Monroe  or  any  stranger 
from  whom  she  could  have  obtained  information. 

On  the  other  hand,  Mrs.  Morgan’s  description  of  the  body,  before  she 
had  seen  it,  was  quite  as  satisfactory  as  Mrs.  Monroe’s  description  of  the 
clothes. 

Our  committee  took  no  part  in  the  third  inquest,  and  the  body,  as  is 
known,  was  declared  to  be  that  of  Timothy  Monroe. 

Simultaneously  an  incident  occurred  showing  the  vindictive  spirit  of 
our  opponents. 

LONGEVITY  OF  A  LIE. 

On  the  evening  of  the  day  that  the  body  interred  at  Batavia  was  declared 
by  a  third  inquest  to  be  that  of  Timothy  Monroe,  I  went  into  the  billiard- 
room  of  the  Eagle  Hotel  to  see  a  friend  from  Clarkson.  When  leaving  the 
room,  Ebenezer  Griffin,  Esq.,  a  prominent  lawyer  employed  as  counsel  for 
Masons,  who  was  playing  billiards,  turned  to  me,  cue  in  hand,  saying,  “  Well, 
Weed,  what  will  you  do  for  a  Morgan  now?”  To  which  I  replied,  “That  is 
a  good  enough  Morgan  for  us  till  you  bring  back  the  one  you  carried  off.” 

On  the  following  morning  the  Daily  Advertiser,  a  Masonic  organ,  con¬ 
tained  a  paragraph  charging  me  with  having  boastingly  said  that  the  body 
in  question  “was  a  good  enough  Morgan  until  after  the  election.” 

That  perversion  went  the  rounds  of  the  Masonic  and  Democratic  press, 
awakening  much  popular  indignation  and  subjecting  me  to  denunciations 
in  speeches  and  resolutions  at  political  meetings  and  conventions. 


200  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


Explanations  were  disregarded ;  the  maxim  that  “Falsehood  will  travel 
miles  while  Truth  is  drawing  on  its  boots  ”  was  then  verified. 

I  suffered  obloquy  and  reproach  from  that  wicked  perversion  for  nearly 
half  a  century.  Indeed,  there  is  reason  to  believe  that  even  now,  where  I  am 
personally  unknown,  generations  are  growing  up  believing  that  I  mutilated 
a  dead  body  for  political  effect,  and,  when  exposed,  boasted  that  it  was  a 
good  enough  Morgan  until  after  the  election. 

Forty  years  afterwards  the  editor  of  the  paper  who  originated  that 
calumny,  by  a  series  of  pecuniary  reverses,  was  compelled  to  apply  to  me 
for  assistance.  I  avenged  the  great  wrong  he  had  done  me  by  obtaining  for 
him  a  situation  in  the  Custom  House. 

This  served  to  extend  and  intensify  the  “excitement.”  It  was  every¬ 
where  charged  and  widely  believed  that  I  had  mutilated  the  body  in 
question  for  the  purpose  of  making  it  resemble  that  of  Capt.  \\  illiam 
Morgan. 

I  encountered  prejudices  thus  created  both  in  Paris  and  London  twenty 
years  afterward. 

Our  investigations  were  embarrassed  and  protracted  by  the  absence 
and  concealment  of  important  witnesses. 

MASONS  SPIRIT  AWAY  A  WITNESS. 

One  of  these  witnesses  was  an  invalid  soldier  who  had  had  the  care  of 
Morgan  while  confined  in  the  magazine  at  Fort  Niagara,  but  he  disap¬ 
peared,  and  all  efforts  to  find  him  were  unavailing  for  more  than  a  year. 

I  finally  traced  him  (Elisha  Adams)  to  Brookfield,  a  mountain  town  in 
V  ermont. 

We  reached  the  log  house  of  Adams’  brother-in-law,  with  whom  he 
was  hiding,  between  12  and  1  o’clock  at  night.  Our  rap  was  responded  to 
by  the  owner,  to  whom,  on  opening  the  door,  the  Sheriff  introduced  me, 
directly  after  which,  and  before  anything  more  had  been  said,  we  heard  a 
voice  from  the  second  floor  of  the  cabin,  saying,  “  I  am  ready  and  have  been 
expecting  you  all  winter.” 

Immediately  afterwards  the  old  man  came  down  the  ladder,  and  in  ten 
minutes  we  departed  on  our  return. 

While  waiting  for  breakfast  at  the  foot  of  the  mountain,  several  men 
dropped  into  the  bar-room  where  we  were  sitting. 

When  called  to  breakfast,  the  landlady,  carefully  closing  the  doors, 
remarked  that  her  husband  had  sent  around  for  Masons,  some  of  whom  had 
already  appeared,  but  that  we  need  not  fear  them,  for  she  had  sent  her 
daughter  to  inform  the  other  villagers  what  was  going  on,  and  that  before 
we  had  done  breakfast  there  would  be  twice  as  many  antimasons  as 
Masons  in  attendance. 

Returning  to  the  bar-room  we  found  that  she  had  done  her  work  thor¬ 
oughly.  Fifteen  or  twenty  men  were  in  the  bar-room  glaring  at  each  other 
and  at  Adams,  but  nothing  was  said  and  we  were  driven  off  unmolested. 

MASONIC  BRIBERY  OR  INTIMIDATION  OF  A  WITNESS. 

On  our  way  back  Adams,  at  different  times,  stated  that  hearing  a  noise 
in  the  magazine  he  reported  it  to  Mr.  Edward  Giddins,  keeper  of  the  Fort, 


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who  told  him  that  a  stranger  was  lodged  there  who  in  a  day  or  two  would 
betaken  to  his  friends  in  Canada,  but  nothing  must  be  said  about  it.  He 
then,  from  time  to  time,  carried  food  to  the  person. 

Soon  afterwards,  near  midnight,  he  was  told  to  have  a  boat  in  readiness 
for  the  purpose  of  taking  away  the  man  in  the  magazine. 

Several  gentlemen  arrived  in  a  carriage,  by  whom  the  man  was  taken 
from  the  magazine  and  escorted  to  the  boat. 

Adams  was  told  to  remain  on  the  dock  until  the  boat  should  return,  and 
that  if  in  the  meantime  an  alarm  should  be  given  he  was  to  show  a  signal 
to  warn  the  boat  away. 

As  nothing  of  the  kind  occurred,  the  boat  returned  quietly,  and  as,  of 
the  six  who  left  in  the  boat,  only  five  returned,  he  supposed  that  one  had 
gone  to  his  friends  in  Canada. 

Adams  was  wanted  as  a  witness  in  trials  then  pending  in  Canandaigua. 

We  reached  that  place  in  the  afternoon  of  the  day  the  court  convened. 

Three  men  were  on  trial  for  abducting  Morgan.  The  testimony  of 
Adams  was  essential  to  complete  the  link. 

On  being  called  to  the  stand  he  denied  all  knowledge  bearing  upon  the 
question.  He  resided,  he  said,  at  the  time  specified,  in  the  Fort,  but  knew 
of  no  man  being  confined  in  the  magazine ;  and  knew  nothing  of  men  coming 
there  at  night  in  a  carriage,  and  knew  nothing  of  a  man  being  taken  from 
there  in  a  boat.  His  denials  covering  the  whole  ground  were  explicit. 

That,  for  the  time  being,  ended  the  matter. 

When  the  court  adjourned  I  walked  across  the  square  with  Judge 
Howell,  who  presided,  and  who  remarked  to  me  that  I  had  made  a  long 
journey  for  nothing,  my  witness,  Adams,  being  ignorant  of  the  whole  affair. 

Gen.  Vincent  Mathews,  of  Rochester,  who  was  walking  on  the  other 
side  of  the  Judge,  replied  with  much  feeling,  “  that  the  old  rascal  had  not 
uttered  one  word  of  truth  while  he  was  on  the  stand.” 

Gen.  Mathews  was  the  leading  counsel  for  the  kidnapers,  but  refused 
to  be  a  party  in  tampering  with  witnesses. 

On  our  return  to  Rochester  the  witness  Adams  was  in  an  extra  stage 
with  his  Masonic  friends.  As  there  was  no  longer  any  need  of  hiding,  he 
was  on  his  way  to  Niagara. 

In  passing  the  Mansion  House,  Rochester,  Adams,  who  was  standing 
in  the  doorway,  asked  me  to  stop,  saying  he  wanted  to  explain  his  testimony. 
The  lawyers,  he  said,  informed  him  that  if  he  told  what  he  knew  about  the 
magazine  and  the  boat  it  would  be  a  confession  that  would  send  him  to 
State’s  prison.  They  also  told  him  that  the  law  did  not  compel  a  witness  to 
criminate  himself;  and,  to  avoid  punishment,  he  must  deny  the  whole 
story. 

HON.  THURLOW  WEED  PERSECUTED. 

In  1831,  after  my  removal  from  Rochester  to  Albany,  a  libel  suit  was 
commenced  against  me  by  Gen.  Gould,  of  Rochester. 

It  was  tried  at  Albany,  Judge  James  Vanderpoel  presiding. 

The  libel  charged  Gen.  Gould  with  giving  money  he  received  from  the 
Royal  Arch  Grand  Chapter  to  enable  Burragc  Smith  and  John  Whitney  to 
escape  from  justice. 


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Gerrit  L.  Dox,  Treasurer  of  the  Grand  Chapter,  and  John  Whitney,  one' 
of  the  recipients  of  the  money,  were  in  court  to  establish  the  truth  of  the 
libel. 

Mr.  Dox  testified  that  a  “  charity  fund  ”  had  been  entrusted  to  Gen.- 
Gould.  John  Whitney  was  called  to  prove  that  he  received  a  part  of  the 
fund,  with  which,  in  company  with  Burrage  Smith,  he  left  Rochester  and 
was  absent  nearly  a  year. 

Gen.  Gould’s  counsel  objected  to  witness’  testimony  until  it  had  been 
shown  that  Gen.  Gould  knew  that  the  money  furnished  was  to  enable  Smith 
and  Whitney  to  escape  from  justice. 

The  court  sustained  this  objection  and  Whitney’s  testimony  was 
excluded. 

As  it  was  impossible  to  prove  what  was  known  only  to  Gen.  Gould  him¬ 
self,  the  trial  ended  abruptly. 

Judge  Vanderpoel,  in  charging  the  jury,  dwelt  at  length  upon  the 
licentiousness  of  the  press,  and  called  upon  the  jury  to  give  exemplary 
damages  to  the  injured  and  innocent  plaintiff. 

The  jury  thus  instructed,  but  with  evident  reluctance,  found  a  verdict 
of  $400  against  me. 

My  offense  consisted  in  asserting  a  fact,  the  exact  truth  of  which  would 
have  been  established  if  the  testimony  had  not  been  ruled  out  by  a  mon¬ 
strous  perversion  of  justice. 

Col.  Simeon  B.  Jewett,  of  Clarkson;  Major  Samuel  Barton,  of  Lewiston, 
and  John  Whitney,  of  Rochester,  passed  that  evening  at  my  house. 

Jewett  was  prepared  to  testify  that  he  furnished  a  carriage  for  those  who 
were  conveying  Morgan  secretly  from  Canandaigua  to  Niagara. 

John  Whitney  was  one  of  the  party. 

Major  Barton  would  have  testified  that  he  furnished  the  carriage  which 
conveyed  the  party  from  Lewiston  to  Fort  Niagara,  John  Whitney  being 
one  of  that  party. 

Whitney  would  have  sworn  that  Gould  supplied  money  to  enable 
him  to  “escape  from  justice.” 

whitney’s  confession  of  murder. 

In  the  course  of  the  evening,  the  Morgan  affair  being  the  principal  topic 
of  conversation,  Col.  Jewett  turned  to  Whitney  with  emphasis  and  said, 
“John,  what  if  you  make  a  clean  breast  of  it?” 

Whitney  looked  inquiringly  at  Barton,  who  added,  “Go  ahead.” 

Whitney  then  related  in  detail  the  history  of  Morgan's  abduction  and 

fate. 

The  idea  of  suppressing  Morgan’s  intended  exposure  of  the  secrets  of 
Masonry  was  first  suggested  by  a  man  by  the  name  of  Johns.  It  was  dis¬ 
cussed  in  lodges  at  Batavia,  Le  Roy  and  Rochester. 

Johns  suggested  that  Morgan  should  be  separated  from  Miller  and 
placed  on  a  farm  in  Canada  West. 

For  this  purpose  he  was  taken  to  Niagara  and  placed  in  the  maga¬ 
zine  of  the  Fort  until  arrangements  for  settling  him  in  Canada  were 
completed,  but  the  Canadian  Masons  disappointed  them. 


ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY.  203 


After  several  meetings  of  the  lodge  in  Canada,  opposite  Fort  Niagara, 
a  refusal  to  have  anything  to  do  with  Morgan  left  his  “kidnapers”  greatly 
perplexed. 

Opportunely  a  Royal  Arch  Chapter  was  installed  at  Lewiston.  The 
occasion  brought  a  large  number  of  enthusiastic  Masons  together. 

MURDEROUS  TOAST  OF  MASONIC- METHODIST  MINISTER. 

“After  labor,”  in  Masonic  language,  they  “retired  to  refreshment,” 
Under  the  exhilaration  of  champagne  and  other  viands  the  Chaplain  (the 
Rev.  F.  H.  Cummings,  of  Rochester)  was  called  on  for  a  toast.  He  responded 
with  peculiar  emphasis  and  in  the  language  of  their  ritual : 

“  The  enemies  of  our  order — may  they  find  a  grave  six  feet  deep ,  six  feet 
long ,  and  six  feet  due  east  and  west." 

Immediately  after  that  toast,  which  was  received  with  great  enthusiasm, 
Col.  William  King,  an  officer  in  our  war  of  1812,  and  then  a  Member  of 
Assembly  from  Niagara  County,  called  Whitney,  of  Rochester;  Howard,  of 
Buffalo;  Chubbuck,  of  Lewiston,  and  Garside,  of  Canada,  out  of  the  room 
and  into  a  carriage  furnished  by  Major  Barton. 

They  were  driven  to  Fort  Niagara,  repaired  to  the  magazine,  and 
imformed  Morgan  that  the  arrangements  for  sending  him  to  Canada  were 
completed  and  that  his  family  would  soon  follow  him. 

THE  MURDER. 

Morgan  received  the  information  cheerfully  and  walked  with  supposed 
friends  to  the  boat,  which  was  rowed  to  the  mouth  of  the  river,  where  a  rope 
was  wound  around  his  body,  to  each  end  of  which  a  sinker  was  attached. 

Morgan  was  then  thrown  overboard. 

He  grasped  the  gunwhale  of  the  boat  convulsively. 

Garside,  in  forcing  Morgan  to  relinquish  his  hold,  was  severely  bitten. 

Whitney,  in  concluding  his  narrative,  said  he  was  now  relieved  from  a 
heavy  load;  that  for  four  years  he  had  not  heard  the  window  rustle  or  any 
other  noise  at  night  without  thinking  the  sheriff  was  after  him. 

Col.  Jewett,  looking  fixedly  at  Whitney,  said,  “  Weed  can  hang  you  now.” 

“  But  he  won’t,”  was  Whitney’s  prompt  reply. 

Of  course  a  secret  thus  confided  to  me  was  inviolably  kept,  and  twenty- 
nine  years  afterwards,  while  attending  a  National  Republican  Convention 
at  Chicago,  John  Whitney,  who  then  resided  there,  called  to  say  that  he 
wanted  me  to  write  out  what  he  once  told  me  about  Morgan’s  fate,  to  be 
signed  by  him  in  the  presence  of  witnesses,  to  be  sealed  up  and  published 
after  his  death. 

I  promised  to  do  so  before  leaving  Chicago. 

There  was  no  leisure,  however,  during  the  sitting  of  the  Convention, 
and  even  before  its  final  adjournment,  forgetting  what  I  had  told  Whitney, 
I  hurried  to  Iowa,  returning  by  way  of  Springfield  to  visit  Mr.  Lincoln. 

In  the  excitement  of  the  canvass  which  followed  and  the  secession  of 
the  Southern  States  upon  Mr.  Lincoln’s  election,  I  neglected  the  important 
duty  of  securing  the  confession  Whitney  was  so  anxious  to  make. 

In  1861  I  went  to  Europe,  and  while  in  London  wrote  a  letter  to  Whit¬ 
ney  asking  him  to  get  Alex.  B.  Williams,  then  a  resident  of  Chicago,  to  do 


204  ZION'S  CONFLICT  WITH  METHODIST  APOSTASY. 


what  I  had  so  unpardonably  neglected.  That  letter  reached  Chicago  one 
week  after  Whitney’s  death,  closing  the  last  and  only  chance  for  the  revela¬ 
tion  of  that  important  event. 

Whitney  was  a  mason  by  trade,  honest,  industrious,  sober,  but  excitable. 

In  all  the  early  stages  of  the  Morgan  affair  he  believed  he  was  doing 
his  duty.  The  final  crime  was  committed  under  the  circumstances  I  have 
related. 

I  now  look  back  through  an  interval  of  fifty-six  years  with  a  conscious 
sense  of  having  been  governed  through  the  “antimasonic  excitement”  by 
a  sincere  desire,  first,  to  vindicate  the  violated  laws  of  my  country,  and  next, 
to  arrest  the  great  power  and  dangerous  influences  of  “Secret  Societies.” 

We  labored  under  serious  disadvantages.  The  people  were  unwilling 
to  believe  that  an  institution  so  ancient,  to  which  so  many  of  our  best  and 
most  distinguished  men  belonged,  was  capable  of  not  only  violating  the 
laws  but  of  sustaining  and  protecting  offending  men  of  the  order. 

A  vast  majority  of  the  American  people  believed  that  Morgan  was  con¬ 
cealed  by  our  committee  for  political  effect. 

While  we  were  being  fiercely  denounced  as  incendiary  spirits,  Judge 
Enos  T.  Throop,  in  charging  the  Grand  Jury  at  Canandaigua,  spoke  of  anti¬ 
masonry  as  a  “blessed  spirit”;  a  spirit  which  he  hoped  “would  not  rest 
until  every  man  implicated  in  the  abduction  of  Morgan  was  tried,  convicted 
and  punished.” 

ROLL  OF  HONOR  OF  ANTIMASONS. 

It  is  pleasant  also  to  contemplate  the  character  of  those  with  whom  I 
was  then  associated  judicially  and  politically.  Than  James  Wadsworth, 
George  W.  Patterson  and  Philo  C.  Fuller,  of  Livingston;  Trumbull  Cary, 
George  W.  Lay,  James  Brisbane,  Moses  Taggart,  Seth  M.  Gates,  Phineas 
L.  Tracy,  Herbert  A.  Read,  Timothy  Fitch,  Hinman  Holden  and  T.  F. 
Talbot,  of  Genesee;  Albert  H.  Tracy,  Millard  Fillmore,  Noah  P.  Sprague 
and  Thomas  C.  Love,  of  Erie;  Bates  Cook,  George  H.  Boughton,  Robert 
Fleming,  John  Phillips  and  Lyman  A.  Spaulding,  of  Niagara;  Andrew  B. 
Dickinson,  of  Steuben;  John  Maynard  and  William  Sackett,  of  Seneca; 
Myron  Holley,  of  Wayne;  Francis  Granger,  Henry  W.  Taylor  and  Samuel 
Miles  Hopkins,  of  Ontario;  William  H.  Seward,  Christopher  and  Edwin  B. 
Morgan,  of  Cayuga;  Rev.  Dr.  Nott,  of  Schenectady;  Victory  Birdseye  and 
E.  W.  Leavenworth,  of  Onondaga ;  William  H.  Maynard,  of  Oneida ;  Gideon 
Hard,  of  Orleans;  Abner  Hazeltine  and  John  Birdsall,  of  Chautauqua; 
Samuel  Work,  Heman  Norton,  Samuel  G.  Andrews,  James  K.  Livingston, 
Frederick  Whittlesey,  Dr.  F.  F.  Backus,  A.  W.  Riley  and  Harvey  Ely,  of 
Monroe;  Henry  Dana  Ward,  of  New  York;  Weare  C.  Little,  of  Albany; 
Richard  Rush,  John  Sargent  and  Amos  Ellmaker,  of  Pennsylvania;  and 
William  Wirt,  of  Virginia,  an  equal  number  of  truly  good  and  eminent  men 
cannot  be  found. 

My  friends  Weare  C.  Little,  of  Albany;  Gideon  Hard,  of  Orleans; 
Moses  Taggart,  of  Genesee,  and  Lyman  A.  Spaulding,  of  Niagara,  are 
almost  the  only  survivors. 

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are  true.  THURLOW  WEED. 

Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me  this  28th  day  of  September,  1882. 

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